I think myself obliged, whatever my private apprehensions may be of the success, to do my duty, and leave events to their Disposer.

God would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it.

God [is] the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.

... even when we find not what we seek, we find something as well worth seeking as what we missed.

The gospel comprises indeed, and unfolds, the whole mystery of mans redemption, as far forth as it is necessary to be known for our salvation.

From a knowledge of His work, we shall know Him.

As the sun is best seen at his rising and setting, so men's native dispositions are clearest seen when they are children, and when they are dying.

Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.

Sound consists of an undulating motion of the air.

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.

He whose faith never doubted, may justly doubt of his faith.

She had so deep a kinship with the trees, so intuitive a sympathy with leaf and flower, that it seemed as if the blood in her veins was not slow-moving human blood, but volatile sap.

An animal in pain is the saddest thing on Earth.

I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all.

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

I've rarely said the word "Lord," unless it's followed by "of the Rings.

I’m here now, I’m inevitably going to die at some point, and as an artist I feel an ardent urge to constantly be creating.

What one person does, several people usually consider.

The Iraqi elections were an important first step.

When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That's the price she has to pay.

I'm helping launch the new Milky Way Chocolate Ice Cream Bar. I play an astrophysicist on television, and the name of the bar is Milky Way, so put two and two together, and here I am.