Profound minds are the most likely to think lightly of the resources of human reason, and it is the superficial thinker who is generally strongest in every kind of unbelief.

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by failures.

I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

Experimental science hardly ever affords us more than approximations to the truth; and whenever many agents are concerned we are in great danger of being mistaken.

Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument.

We must reason in natural philosophy not from what we hope, or even expect, but from what we perceive.

Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.

By science calmed, over the peaceful soul, Bright with eternal Wisdom's lucid ray, Peace, meek of eye, extends her soft control, And drives the puny Passions far away.

Consistency in opinion is the slow poison of intellectual life, the destroyer of its vividness and energy.

When two elements combine and form more than one compound, the masses of one element that react with a fixed mass of the other are in the ratio of small whole numbers.

These scars that we have... they don't go away. They only fade with time, but they're still hauntingly there.

One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian as in accord with the law of God and man.

Where I live you're not supposed to shoot a firearm within a quarter mile of a dwelling.

The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship.

If you never feel like giving up, then your dreams are too small

At the beginning, all we have is the vision. At that point God expects us to begin walking in obedience according to the dream He has given us.

Pain collected into deep pockets and I was aware of this painbut somehow I could not seem to feel it. It was like a body-deafness.

In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it, there is no value, - and if there were, it would be of no value.

If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun.

Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.