Astronomy ... is of all others the science which seems to present to us the most striking instance of waste in nature.

As an astronomer in the true sense of the term, Sir John Herschel stood before all his contemporaries. Nay, he stood almost alone.

The whole system has been long since swept away, and its records merely remain as illustrations of perverted ingenuity.

Languages are not strangers to on another.

Hate and envy are like a bomb that cannot destroy anything without first destroying itself.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

...the single destination of sanctity could admit of so many different avenues leading to it.

How one encounters reality is a choice.

I've always been fortunate in that I've been able to put myself in my own zone and relax. It comes naturally. I'm lucky to be that way

Economic freedom is ... an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom.

No one came to earth empty; everybody came with a contribution to make to their generation. Most of them never find that gift and even more die never releasing it.

0 summer friendship, whose flat-tering leaves shadowed us in our prosperity, With the least gust, drop off in the autumn of adversity.

As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he's a genius.