The besetting evil of our age is the temptation to squander and dilute thought on a thousand different lines of inquiry.

Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.

...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we are never weary of admiring.

The stars are the land-marks of the universe.

Occurrences which according to received theories ought not to happen, are the facts which serve as clues to new discoveries

To the natural philosopher, there is no natural object unimportant or trifling. From the least of Nature's works he may learn the greatest lessons.

The barrier has begun to yield.

Geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to astronomy.

All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred writings.

There is a pinciple in the heart of music which has yet to be discovered.

What God sends is welcome.

Take yourself out of the center of other people's universe - it will free you up and let the universe turn more easily.

Don't fall for someone's words

I wholeheartedly welcomed Charles de Gaulle eulogy of French valour, to which he attributed the liberation of Paris.

In my personal life, my family makes me laugh more than anybody; I think that is the same for everybody. I certainly hope it is.

I have cellulite, just like almost every other woman on the planet.

I suppose it is because woman's courage is mental and man's physical, that in times of great strain women always make the better showing.

It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.

I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.

It's the gymnasium of life where you get the workout, the resistance, and you find out things about yourself that you didn't know.

I think the Republican party should be placed in drydock and have the barnacles scraped off its bottom.