The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one of the most important branches of Biological science.

Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence.

I was obliged, at last, to come to the conclusion that the contemplation of nature alone is not sufficient to fill the human heart and mind.

The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown.

The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents.

The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.

It takes a very long time to become young.

There is wonder in everything, the only thing you need to change to see it is your perspective.

Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.

The idea is to go to bed every night with fewer enemies than you had in the morning.

'I am a camera' but it is a discontinued model.

I love cats. I have a lot of cat tales, ha ha, so to speak. A lot of my cats come to me. They show up at my house. I'm kind of a cat lady that way.

The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true; the contents of the primary research journals of physics is 90% false.

Don't borrow trouble. The interest is too high.

History is not melodrama, even if it usually reads like that.