Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme.

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

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.

One can descend by imperceptible degree from the most perfect creature to the most shapeless matter, from the best-organised animal to the roughest mineral.

I didn't find out until I became a father. You don't just LOVE your children. You FALL in love with them.

I wanted it for how it made me feel, regardless of how little it cared for me. Do whatever you want -- just give me the bliss.

What God expects us to attempt He also enables us to achieve.

Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy.

Observe with both friend and foe the ordinary rules of courtesy.

Step by step Moment by moment We live through Another day

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Dreaming means 'rehearsing' what you see, playing it over and over in your mind until it becomes as real to you as your life right now.

A writer is in the broadest sense a spokesman of his community. Through him that community comes to know its heart. Without such knowledge, how long can it survive?

We must not be so concerned with the unborn that we fail to pay attention to the born.