For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Every light has its shadow, and every shadow hath a succeeding morning.

Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.

For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.

The Universe, wrought for us by a supremely good and orderly Creator.

Nations are not ruined by one act of violence, but gradually and in an almost imperceptible manner by the depreciation of their circulating currency, through its excessive quantity.

Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe.

Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.

The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens.

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

In reality, there is no such thing as absolute freedom. The rules of social interaction determine one's freedom.

In lovesickness we had found a common language.

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.

I looked up 'standard' in the dictionary. There are eleven different definitions.

Duke Wayne played a mean guy but never an anti-hero.

I love my little Mac G4 computer and we just had Internet installed on the bus... we all have little Macs actually, there's four of us on the bus, and we all just sit there and surf the Internet!

The GOP of old has grown old and moss covered.

Return from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him. Nonexistence is a place of income; flee it not. This existence of more and less is a place of expenditure.

Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.