Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.

Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.

Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme.

Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together.

In Ireland, there are the same fossils, the same shells and the same sea bodies, as appear in America, and some of them are found in no other part of Europe.

The discoveries that one can make with the microscope amount to very little, for one sees with the mind's eye and without the microscope the real existence of all these little beings.

There is nothing good in love but the physical part.

Time is the great workman of Nature.

Style is the essence of man

The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity.

One can descend by imperceptible degree from the most perfect creature to the most shapeless matter, from the best-organised animal to the roughest mineral.

You do not own me. I do not own you.

Kids are baby goats. They're cute and they have redeeming social value. You are definitely not kids.

You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.

I'm not going to be dancing with the stars at this stage in my life. But I want to dance and bop around, and I did, and I can.

Life is short, I have no time for drama.

I will omit but I will not distort.

To abandon yourself to rage is often to bring upon yourself the fault of another.

Am I supposed to be a man? Am I supposed to say, 'It's okay, I don't mind, I don't mind'? Well, I mind! I mind big time! And you know what the worst part is? I never learned to read!

Students from the same teacher will differ in their skills