The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.

It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.

I have procured air [oxygen] ... between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever met with.

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.

The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes.

When we say there is a GOD, we mean that there is an intelligent designing cause of what we see in the world around us, and a being who was himself uncaused.

Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.

Orthodoxy, my Lord,: said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper, — orthodoxy is my doxy, — heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire.

Conversation often becomes mere verbal performance and oral horseplay rather than fair-minded communication. (“Juicy rumours “)

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

The central aspect of worship is the feeling of being at one with God.

Teach yourself and teach your families about the gift of the Holy Ghost and the Atonement of Jesus Christ. You will do no greater eternal work than within the walls of your own home.

When it seems you have nothing at all to live for, death is not especially frightening.

I always wanted to host a show, throw whipped-cream pies. Theater is not my cup of tea.

You can be nasty when you are young, but you really have to be older to achieve bitterness.

A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.

There comes a point where you see no evidence that the carrot and diplomacy are working.

All women are created equal, then some become Мarines.