Endurance is patience concentrated.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

I think about and consider God's feelings before the people's or even my own.

The right hands of fellowship.

Behold a candle, how it gives its light. It weeps its life away drop by drop in order to give forth its flame of light.

I'm not focused on what other people think of me.

A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.

Not trying to be arrogant, but if I walked down the street and a girl saw me, she might take a look back because maybe I'm good-looking, right?

I cannot endure the horror, the evil, which comes to self in solitude.

Genome sequencing has changed taxonomy.

For the next decades, Europe will not be a model that is attractive to Russia.

It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.