Style is the essence of man

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.

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

One can descend by imperceptible degree from the most perfect creature to the most shapeless matter, from the best-organised animal to the roughest mineral.

Be impatient enough to start going after your dreams now but patient enough to watch them manifest.

Reasoning is the mental tool that use to think with

Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.

It is beautiful, beautiful to give; one of the very most beautiful things in life.

Be who you are, not who the world wants you to be.

Robert was never the same after he put on that crown. Some men are like swords, made for fighting. Hang them up and they go to rust.

Let us treat them [children], therefore, with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them.

I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them.

What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God?

My soul experienced a peace so sweet, so deep, it would be impossible to express it.