Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.
For, truly, the man who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.