Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house, but you cannot build the house without them.

Are we to go out with trumpets and tell everything we know, just because it is true? Is there not such a thing as egotistical truthfulness?

warm-heartedness generally begins at home, and those who are warm to others are warmer to themselves; it is but the overflow.

Time is not so all-erasing as we think.

It is easy to be humble when a greater is preferred; but when an inferior is lifted high above our heads, how can we bear it?

My only wickedness is that I love you; my only goodness, the same.

If we neglect our privileges, the gods take them from us.

They did not realize what a supreme effort of courage it required to make this young girl go out alone into the wide world, and face its vastness and its strangeness.

Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house but you cannot build the house without them.

So difficult is it for us to know, with the dead as with the living, whether a thing would cause them joy or sorrow!

Aren't 3, 000 lives worth a miracle to a good and all-powerful god?

Archaeopteryx probably cannot tell us much about the early origins of feathers and flight in true protobirds because Archaeopteryx was, in the modern sense, a bird.

Nobody's perfect but I definitely strive.

Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are.

But the past couple of days I’ve missed you so much it’s felt like missing you is all I am.

Thunderstick?... You actually said, 'Thunderstick?'... That, my friend is a Winchester 30.06.

her scruffy innoscense to impregnate with his dreams. reason was seductive, it gave the appearance of truth

I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.

If you're an investor, you're looking on what the asset is going to do, if you're a speculator, you're commonly focusing on what the price of the object is going to do, and that's not our game.