As has often been said, a ship is like a lady's watch, always out of repair.

O sin, what hast thou done to this fair earth!

The Californians are an idle, thriftless people, and can make nothing for themselves. The country abounds in grapes, yet they buy, at a great price, bad wine made in Boston.

Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that boding cry Along the waves dost thou fly? Oh! rather, bird, with me Through this fair land rejoice!

It is always observable that the physical and the exact sciences are the last to suffer under despotisms.

Sin hath broke the world's sweet peace--unstrung Th' harmonious chords to which the angels sung.

Let him then have powers commensurate with his utmost possible need, only let him be held strictly responsible for the exercise of them. Any other course would be injustice as well as bad policy

It's sad. That's a living creature. We don't have the right to take their life away for fashion.

The man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit.

The largest single contributor to Iraq's security is that effort of Iraqi people who continue to step forward to join the various Iraqi security forces.

You are not the drop in the ocean, but the ocean in the drop.

Motion at low Reynolds number is very majestic, slow, and regular.

We all need a meaning to our life.

The early masters also introduced walking meditation and hard work to the monastery, for too much sitting could reach the point of diminishing returns.

I object to religion in science classrooms not because it's religion but because it's not science.

Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith.

I wonder if in 2050 there will be a movie called, 'Dude, Where's My Spaceship'