Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a system disposed with order and design.

Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.

...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we are never weary of admiring.

The stars are the land-marks of the universe.

The besetting evil of our age is the temptation to squander and dilute thought on a thousand different lines of inquiry.

Occurrences which according to received theories ought not to happen, are the facts which serve as clues to new discoveries

To the natural philosopher, there is no natural object unimportant or trifling. From the least of Nature's works he may learn the greatest lessons.

The barrier has begun to yield.

Geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to astronomy.

All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred writings.

There is a pinciple in the heart of music which has yet to be discovered.

If I could mark clearly, convincingly and consistently what was good for me and also what was bad—if I could say yes and also no, as if it were the law—it would become my law.

A good garden may have some weeds.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Congress has an obligation to clear the legal fog by passing my bill to require the federal government to obtain a warrant if it wants to conduct aerial surveillance.

The reason I am a political radical is that I work on syntax. If I worked on semantics (which in fact I do), I'd be a good Thatcherite.

What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.

Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else.

So what he supposed to do? Grab Bobbie's ax and make like Jack Nicholson in The Shinning? He could see it. Smash, crash, bash: Heeeeeeere's GARDENER!

Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve?

Middle class Labour leaders are recaptured by the establishment when they die.