A prolonged war in which a nation takes part is bound to impoverish the breed, since the character of the breed depends on the men who are left.

The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.

The man who has grit enough to bring about the afforestation or the irrigation of a country is not less worthy of honor than its conqueror.

The chief end of science is to make things clear, the educative aim is to foster the inquisitive spirit.

Was it not the great philosopher and mathematician Leibnitz who said that the more knowledge advances the more it becomes possible to condense it into little books?

The Doctrine of Evolution states the fact that the present is the child of the past and the parent of the future.

There is no counting the unsolved problems of Natural History.

To see the years touch ye gives me joy", he whispered, "for it means that ye live.

Everybody seems to be wasting their time online. There is such a narcissistic attitude. It's such a strange world.

Sometimes dreams show me that my writing should go deeper. Dreams have not so much changed my work as deepened it.

Your suffering is never caused by the person you're blaming.

What world is there for us where our essential nature - and its right to live free - is one and the same?

We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.

While they flail about, you will remain calm in the knowledge that you possess strength from within.

Of all wild beasts on earth or in sea, the greatest is a woman.

The passion of Christianity comes from deliberately signing away my own rights and becoming a bondservant of Jesus Christ. Until I do that, I will not begin to be a saint.

Yeah, I think it's like any God-given gift. You writers have the gift of perception. If you don't use it, you're going to lose it. And it's the same thing with you [Lorraine], it's God-given.