In the year 1657 I discovered very small living creatures in rain water.

Man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.

Whenever I found something remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people be informed thereof.

I've spent more time than many will believe [making microscopic observations], but I've done them with joy, and I've taken no notice those who have said why take so much trouble and what good is it?

How inscrutable and incomprehensible are the hidden works of Nature!

Where would you be without etymology'? Lea asked sarcastically.'I think I might find words a little less interesting, ' said Mr Ruche.

When we meet grace, it becomes the fuel of our faith. We pray, we read our Bibles, we worship and we live the purest lifestyle we can because we love a person.

Today is felt to be the most complicated day in our lives and rarely in trying to deal with the issues of today, are we aware of the impact of the past on those issues.

My Christmas was a sum total of the ministrations of adults, usually adults who wanted me to encourage my parents to buy something for me to consume and discard.

But I don't want more things than I need, either.

Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders.

The best form of saying is doing.

When I was growing up, the top movies dealt with grown-up, complex emotions.

It is quite unlawful to demand, defend, or to grant unconditional freedom of thought, or speech, of writing or worship, as if these were so many rights given by nature to man.

Joy isn't the natural response to blessings - joy is what comes from acknowledging them.