Was it not the great philosopher and mathematician Leibnitz who said that the more knowledge advances the more it becomes possible to condense it into little books?

The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.

The man who has grit enough to bring about the afforestation or the irrigation of a country is not less worthy of honor than its conqueror.

The chief end of science is to make things clear, the educative aim is to foster the inquisitive spirit.

The Doctrine of Evolution states the fact that the present is the child of the past and the parent of the future.

A prolonged war in which a nation takes part is bound to impoverish the breed, since the character of the breed depends on the men who are left.

There is no counting the unsolved problems of Natural History.

Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.

As for women who were pretty, intelligent, strikingly sensual, the daughters of rich families—they would only have served to disrupt my carefully ordered existence

I always wanted to be where the cool was because I didn't think I was cool. But music was cool.

People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.

You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.

I have important business to get to. I plan to sulk all afternoon, followed, perhaps, by an evening of Byronic brooding and a nighttime of dissipation.

Even if it’s dangerous, and painful, and so very, very lonely. One must go on fighting- It is the only honorable thing to do

I do think once I get into expectations, I've just trained myself. I've just trained myself to just move on to the next.

Don't believe in imagining things different from what they really are. When the Lord puts us in certain circumstances He doesn't mean for us to imagine them away.

It's not the size of the nose that matters, it's what's inside that counts.