The barrier has begun to yield.

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.

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.

What God sends is welcome.

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.

Imagination pointed toward truth but could not disclose it directly.

If you are bitter, that means they got the best of you. If they got the best of you, that means they won.

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

Our molting season, like that of the fouls, must be a crisis in our lives.

Until things are brighter.. I'm the man in black.

The good thing about acting is that it always keeps you on your toes... It's not like any other job where you can go in and do the same thing as yesterday.

We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.

Balance happens when I invite it to happen with my intentional actions and my guided perspective.

God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.