How inscrutable and incomprehensible are the hidden works of Nature!

Man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.

Whenever I found something remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people be informed thereof.

In the year 1657 I discovered very small living creatures in rain water.

I've spent more time than many will believe [making microscopic observations], but I've done them with joy, and I've taken no notice those who have said why take so much trouble and what good is it?

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Don’t beg for treasure

I'm eating a massive pastrami sandwich. It's so beautiful I might cry. Just so you know.

A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.

The fog comes on little cat feet.

It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they've no way o' working it off; and the new spring brings no new shoots out on the withered tree.

In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.

Being away from home gave me a chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye

We in government should learn to look at our country with the eyes of the entrepreneur, seeing possibilities where others see only problems

Musicians own music because music owns them.