[Lockyer]... sometimes forgets he is only the editor and not the author of Nature. [Lockyer was the first editor of Nature.]

[Lord Brougham's writings on the bee's cell contain] as striking examples of bad reasoning as are often to be met with in writings related to mathematical subjects.

A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones

I had a slight feeling of babysitting as we walked soberly along together using all our old phrases, making all our old jokes, not quite feeling all our old fondness.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times you don't want to set him down as a failure until he's dead or loses his courage - and that's the same thing.

I play in the low eighties. If it's any hotter than that I won't play.

I can't do that to myself...

Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live. The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.

For a mother's love is fashioned, After God's enduring love, It is endless and unfailing, Like the love of Him above.

Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)

The camera was another weapon in the wars of domination.

The development of self-confidence starts with the elimination of this demon called fear.