We can only penetrate the rind of the earth.

Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.

Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme.

Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together.

In Ireland, there are the same fossils, the same shells and the same sea bodies, as appear in America, and some of them are found in no other part of Europe.

Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.

The discoveries that one can make with the microscope amount to very little, for one sees with the mind's eye and without the microscope the real existence of all these little beings.

There is nothing good in love but the physical part.

Time is the great workman of Nature.

Style is the essence of man

The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity.

You have to go through the fires to be tested by faith.

It is far too late for bloodless hands.

The older I get the more I realize how simple life is and how complicated we make it...

The people of Oklahoma deserve better. We deserve leadership that's willing and unafraid to take a public stand against bigotry and bullying.

I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.

The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on offer in the U.K., but I'm not confident there will be any takers.

Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.

Living in memories is an empty gesture.

Faith is not for overcoming obstacles; it is for experiencing them—all the way through!

I think continually of those who were truly great.