Benjamin Thompson Quotes

This fixes as it were the latitude and longitude of each discovery, and enables us to place it in that part of the map of human knowledge which it ought to occupy. It likewise enables us to use it in taking bearings and distances, and in shaping our course when we go in search of new discoveries.

Virtue never dwelt long with filth; nor do I believe there ever was a person scrupulously: attentive to cleanliness, who was a consummate villain.

To engage in experiments on heat was always one of my most agreeable employments.

So great is the effect of cleanliness upon man, that it extends even to his moral character.