A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.

If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.

It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.

In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.

Nature does not proceed by leaps.

The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer.

Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.

Blessed be the Lord for the beauty of summer and spring, for the air, the water, the verdure, and the song of birds.

I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself most assuredly know of none.

Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of nature is therefore like a physicist without knowledge of mathematics.

Natural bodies are divided into three kingdomes of nature: viz. the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Minerals grow, Plants grow and live, Animals grow, live, and have feeling.

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

A street full of shadows will teach you what life is much better than the street full of lights!

God has ordained that His people live by promises and not by explanations.

You would think there's a natural limit to tears: only so much the body can give at one sitting before it runs dry.

Like the eagle, we (artists) must be able to see clearly.

Successful people do the things that unsuccessful people won't do.

The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.

I used to go to the same club every week in my home town, and even there I'd always stay at the back of the queue. I never once assumed I could just walk in.

You're surfing with all this glamour, and a lot of people are talking about Gwyneth, JLo, and Cameron.

They all come out from the same thing; all the projects are connected somehow.