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.

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.

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.

Don't let people intimidate you into downgrading your goals. They intimidate only because they are intimidated by your goals.

Lord thank you for thy faithfulness.

Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.

If people were in the habit of refering to 'King George's council, Winston and his gang,' it would go a long way to clearing thought, and reducing the frightful landslide into Theyocracy.

Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty.

This is the tendency of all living things: to avoid pain and to cling to pleasure.

I find value investing to be a stimulating, intellectually challenging, ever changing, and financially rewarding discipline

I believe it is important that we Japanese write a constitution for ourselves that would reflect the shape of the country we consider desirable in the 21st century.

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.