Those who write as they speak, even though they speak well, write badly.

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.

Tom always did anger well. Hid it well, but showed it even better

She is mine.' Edward’s low voice was suddenly dark, not as composed as before. 'I didn’t say I would fight fair.

I come in peace unto you

I hope to be an actor and never retire.

If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.

Equality is a slogan based on envy. It signifies in the heart of every republican: "Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I."

We cannot survive spiritually with one foot in the Church and the other in the world.

My saving grace was that I always knew when to leave the party.

Bullying wasn't okay in elementary school and it isn't okay now, especially when it comes in the form of a U.S. Supreme Court decision.

How odd to watch a mortal kindle / Then to dwindle day by day / Knowing their bright souls are tinder / And the wind will have its way