Chocolate is a perfect food, as wholesome as it is delicious, a beneficent restorer of exhausted power...it is the best friend of those engaged in literary pursuits.

If you want to become a chemist, you will have to ruin your health. If you don't ruin your health studying, you won't accomplish anything these days in chemistry. Liebig's advice to Kekulé.

The secret of all those who make discoveries is that they regard nothing as impossible.

Chemistry, in its application to animals and vegetables. Endeavours jointly with physiology to enlighten us respecting the mysterious processes and sources of organic life.

Observation is like a piece of glass, which, as a mirror, must be very smooth, and must be very carefully polished, in order that it may reflect the image pure and undistorted.

The more fodder, the more flesh; the more flesh, the more manure; the more manure, the more grain.

A fact acquires its true and full value only through the idea which is developed from it.

If it is impossible to judge merit and guilt in the field of natural science, then it is not possible in any field, and historical research becomes an idle, empty activity.

The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, religion or philosophy.

In the progressive growth of astronomy, physics or mechanical science was developed, and when this had been, to a certain degree, successfully cultivated, it gave birth to the science of chemistry.

In this apparatus is nothing new but its simplicity and thorough trustworthiness. On his revolutionary method of organic analysis.

The mere fact that I exist, means that I deserve to be here and to express myself any damn way I please.

The Jesus People experience proved to be a staging area for tens of thousands of young Americans who were making up their mind about marriage, schooling, and careers

Homogeneity is much to be admired - in milk, for instance - but not for parties.

That's why I believe in Christianity because the Scriptures said: "The things that have been done in the dark will be known on the house tops."

When you just arrive in L.A., you are in a great position, as you are fresh meat, and people will meet you and give you a chance.

A lot of people misunderstand me. That's because they don't know me at all.

I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.

The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.

"You know that it is quite preposterous of you to chase rainbows," said the sane person to the poet. "Yet it would be rather beautiful if I did one day manage to catch one," mused the poet.

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.