We define organic chemistry as the chemistry of carbon compounds.

Let us learn to dream, gentlemen; then we shall perhaps find the truth.

Carbon is, as may easily be shown and as I shall explain in greater detail later, tetrabasic or tetratomic, that is 1 atom of carbon = C = 12 is equivalent to 4 At.H.

Originally a pupil of Liebig, I became a pupil of Dumas, Gerhardt and Williamson: I no longer belonged to any school.

fingers of wind combed the lake into ridges—icy palm prints glistened wherever it rested

We are so busy trying to make a better TOMORROW that we forget to make the best of TODAY.-RVM

The French have a passion for revolution but an abhorrence of change.

There was nothing there but black water and American fire power.

You need to have honest things in the world. Even if people don't understand it, if it's coming from you, that's already important.

Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.

I do believe that people who write for children are deeply connected to their own childhood.

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

I went down to Houston and I stopped in San 'Antone, I passed up the station for the bus. I was trying to find me something, but I wasn't sure just what... man, I ended up with pockets full of dust.

In valor there is hope.