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.

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

The barrier has begun to yield.

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.

Some days are harder than others, but I am ready to live each one of them. I can't sacrifice myself, this time.

It’s as predictable as the tide and the moon. It ebbs and flows. Death comes and it goes."- THE WICKED DEEP

A good strategy with a bad implementation is a bad strategy

We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.

I've always wanted to write a song that goes, "I love you" and a book that goes, "Something happened." Something very direct.

You're rich according to what you are, not according to what you have!

Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it.

Talked my head off Worked my tail off Cried my eyes out Walked my feet off Sang my heat out So you see, There's really not much left of me.

I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.

In Europe public men do resign. But here it's a lost art. You have to impeach 'em.