Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.

The best thing about books is that you don’t need passwords to open them and a battery to read them.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

There is some solution to every problem. No lock was ever made without keys.

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.