I have procured air [oxygen] ... between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever met with.

It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.

The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.

The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes.

When we say there is a GOD, we mean that there is an intelligent designing cause of what we see in the world around us, and a being who was himself uncaused.

Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.

Orthodoxy, my Lord,: said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper, — orthodoxy is my doxy, — heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire.

Stay inspired, happy and joyful.

I handle wisdom only after I just looked down, listened to and understood.

November is auspicious in so many parts of the country: the rice harvest is already in, the weather starts to cool, and the festive glow which precedes Christmas has began to brighten the landscape.

I see the work the pope has to do. It is a huge responsibility. Nobody campaigns for it.

It is hard to wait and press and pray, and hear no voice, but stay till God answers.

Miracles are creative. Healing is the restoration of what has been.

My favorite umpire is a dead one.

So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned.

Let's not do that. Let's love people. Let's care about people. Let's repeal it now while we can.