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.

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

Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme.

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.

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.

Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

Humans need to be a little crazy, spontaneous, unusual, free-flowing, and creative.

No man ever became very wicked all at once.

The difference between successes and failures in life is simply that winners take the first step.

The New Year, like an Infant Heir to the whole world, was waited for, with welcomes, presents, and rejoicings.

If God awarded us medals, as they do in the Olympics, love would win the gold, joy the silver, and peace the bronze.

Let your players know that you love them.

There is nothing beautiful or sweet or great in life that is not mysterious.

It's always nice to end your sentences with an exclamation mark, and not a comma.

Where most entrepreneurs fail is on the things they don't know they don't know.