no body can desire more ardently than myself to concur in whatever may promote useful science, and I view no science with more partiality than Natural history.

every son of science feels a strong & disinterested desire of promoting it in every part of the earth

I am for encouraging the progress of science in all it’s branches

science never appears so beautiful as when applied to the uses of human life, nor any use of it so engaging as agriculture & domestic economy.

the more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, & the less inclination we shall have to seek it.

but Botany is the school for patience, and it’s amateurs learn resignation from daily disappointments.