The road to God is whatever road you're on.
Ah! How good it feels the hand of an old friend.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
A book of quotations... can never be complete.
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
My son, ask for thyself another kingdom, for that which I leave is too small for thee.
The heart of the discerning acquires knowledge; the ears of the wise seek it out.
