God knows how ardently I wish I had ten lives.

Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.

...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we are never weary of admiring.

The stars are the land-marks of the universe.

The besetting evil of our age is the temptation to squander and dilute thought on a thousand different lines of inquiry.

Occurrences which according to received theories ought not to happen, are the facts which serve as clues to new discoveries

To the natural philosopher, there is no natural object unimportant or trifling. From the least of Nature's works he may learn the greatest lessons.

The barrier has begun to yield.

Geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to astronomy.

All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred writings.

There is a pinciple in the heart of music which has yet to be discovered.

It is better to lose friends than to lose your reputation, and better to lose riches than to lose your integrity.

The child who attends school does not remember the abuse that happens at home or via the family

The toughest thing to do in politics is to do the right thing when your supporters think the right thing is something else.

guilt is the cause of more marauders than history's most obscene disauders

God is that inner presence which makes us admire the beautiful and consoles us for not sharing the happiness of the wicked.

Service to many leads to greatness- great respect, great satisfaction.

L.A. kind of scares me.

It's a pity to shoot the pianist when the piano is out of tune.

Many things are formidable, and none more formidable than man.

A little black girl yearns for the blue eyes of a little white girl, and the horror at the heart of her yearning is exceeded only by the evil of fulfillment