It is not always the magnitude of the differences observed between species that must determine specific distinctions, but the constant preservation of those differences in reproduction.

All knowledge that is not the real product of observation, or of consequences deduced from observation, is entirely groundless and illusory.

It is not enough to discover and prove a useful truth previously unknown, but that it is necessary also to be able to propagate it and get it recognized.

The form follows the function.

What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in which some species of living plant is situated.

Habits form a second nature.

Never trust a species that grins all the time. It’s up to something.

All other goods by fortune's hand are given: A wife is the peculiar gift of Heav'n.

It is easy to understand why the rabble dislike cats. A cat is beautiful; it suggests ideas of luxury, cleanliness, voluptuous pleasures.

I am no busier than I have ever been - I have always been a busy guy.

Let's face it, she can't have simply disappeared...can she?" Horace shrugged. "That's what I keep telling myself," he said morosley. "But somehow it looks as if she has.

We sing because we can't speak anymore.

It's an earnings-driven market. The big question is whether the flow of earnings can rescue the market from the twin dreadnoughts of higher oil and interest rates.

We live in a time like dreaming.... The edges of our lives flutter and change as we watch them. Listen to the dream.

Our busy age does not always have time to read, but it always has time to look.

The thing is, I think as a director or a writer or whatever, you have to have a vision. And you have to be maybe sometimes too early, somewhere.