The heavens are now seen to resemble a luxuriant garden, which contains the greatest variety of productions, in different flourishing beds.

I have looked farther into space than ever a human being did before me.

I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars of which the light, it can be proved, must take two million years to reach the earth.

Seeing is in some respect an art, which must be learnt.

The undevout astronomer must be mad.

He broke through the barriers of the skies.

We need not hesitate to admit that the Sun is richly stored with inhabitants.

I have tried to improve telescopes and practiced continually to see with them. These instruments have play'd me so many tricks that I have at last found them out in many of their humours.

That planet has a considerable but moderate atmosphere. So that the inhabitants probably enjoy a situation in many respects similar to ours.

The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a theme of declaration and discontent in all ages.

By reflecting a little on this subject I am almost convinced that those numberless small Circuses we see on the moon are the works of the Lunarians and may be called their Towns.

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

To live life as anything less than love is not to live life at all.

We all suffer from dreams

While there are a great many agents in nature which boost libido and enhance sexual function, chocolate alone actually promotes the brain chemistry of being in love.

All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.

What was premeditated murder if not calculated leverage?

God has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations.

It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin that makes our ideas.

It is much easier to conquer a country than to conquer ourselves.

I love the Kinks, but I like all sorts of music. If I stay at home at night and play records, I just go through the whole spectrum, really. I just love music.