Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

You must look into people, as well as at them.

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made

In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.

I'm not an academic, but I'm someone who has a great passion for science and wants to convey the idea that science is for everyone.

Every scientist would like to be able to move through research faster, to spend less time and money acquiring material or disseminating it.

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to Advertising copy.

There is a very prevalent tenet with youth, that good company is every thing desirable, and that bad is even better than none.

This [the intelligent design movement] isn't really, and never has been, a debate about science, it's about religion and philosophy.

We all have different relationships with music. But the music is always there.

Let tyrants shake their iron rod.