We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.

I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!

Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

But in the cause of science men are expected to suffer.

In the meantime, there is not an hour to lose. I am about to visit the public library.

It is only when you suffer that you truly understand.

Sometimes the only reason for us to be somewhere else is to see things from a different perspective.

Asking someone to deny their own inner reality causes further rupture.

Long, I am woman who speaks but one language, the language of the fall--discontentment and self-condemnation, the critical eye and the never satisfied.

I think photography is being recognized and collected. Its values have certainly gone up and continue to go up.

You can stroke people with words.

Our merit gains us the esteem of the virtuous-our star that of the public.

As a true patriot, I should be ashamed to think that Adam in paradise was more favorably situated on the whole than the backwoodsman in this country.

Tell me about our legal issues. And use small words. I don't like to think at this hour of the morning. It hurts." ~Leo to Merripen

I feel as though we're living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional.

I'm a farm boy from Connecticut, and I adopted urban life.