For a girl the wedding is when you're married. For a guy it's when you get engaged. It takes a real aggressive human being to back out between the ring and the wedding.
What we now call school training the pursuit of fixed studies at stated...
My father followed during most of his life the precarious occupation of a...
One hardly knows where in the history of science to look for an important...
The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us...
The result was that if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening I...
In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School...
My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.
