Man thinks, and at once becomes the master of the beings that do not think.

Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.

Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme.

Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together.

In Ireland, there are the same fossils, the same shells and the same sea bodies, as appear in America, and some of them are found in no other part of Europe.

Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.

The discoveries that one can make with the microscope amount to very little, for one sees with the mind's eye and without the microscope the real existence of all these little beings.

There is nothing good in love but the physical part.

Time is the great workman of Nature.

Style is the essence of man

The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity.

Sometimes animals are more human than men and men more animals than animals

He often came back ‘all thinky’ from work.

A big island of library, in the middle of an ocean, away from all the fools of the world, would this place not be a real paradise?

When I create an image that helps someone - even just myself - find peace, then I've attained my goal.

Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.

Man is on earth as in an egg.

I was always really shy so I'd never try to get a guy's attention.

People who don't vote have no call on political leaders!

It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism, and to find it hard to believe

God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us, not to be rattled like a muffin man's bell.