"The joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities was so excessive that I sometimes found myself in a kind of reverie…"

"The greatest happiness consists in doing good to others."

"The most important discoveries have often been made by accident."

"The greatest reward for my labours is the satisfaction of having done good to my fellow creatures."

"It seems to be the determination of some of the jealous members of the ****** (R. *** Soc. y), not to suffer the Institution to sink, but on the / Other hand to master up a force, & support it with al…"