It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.

The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.

I have procured air [oxygen] ... between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever met with.

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.

The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes.

When we say there is a GOD, we mean that there is an intelligent designing cause of what we see in the world around us, and a being who was himself uncaused.

Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.

Orthodoxy, my Lord,: said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper, — orthodoxy is my doxy, — heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire.

True kindness ennobles the giver

Was this what humans were really like? They seemed like drooling idiots to me. I was shocked they walk and breathe at the same time?

I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did.

Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.

I want girls to have an imprint of self-love firmly in place at a young age.

My favorite web site is probably YouTube.

Over the years, Céline Labaune has been constantly seeking to source the highest quality truffles; her diligence and expertise truly set her apart.

The biggest thing for me is just to get out on that field. Just to do that will be incredible.

Many men can no more be kept straight by spiritual motives than we can live without policemen.

Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.