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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Did blind chance know that there was light and what was its refraction, and fit the eyes of all creatures after the most curious manner to make use of it? These and other suchlike considerations, always have, and always will prevail with mankind, to believe that there is a Being who made all things, who has all things in his power, and who is therefore to be feared.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell that ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

I do not know what I may appear to the world but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

I seem to have been like a child playing on the sea shore, finding now and then a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants

In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.

Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther.

Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther.

Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.

It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.

It is indeed ironic that we spend our school days yearning to graduate and our remaining days waxing nostalgic about our school days.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.

The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.

What one has not experienced one will never understand in print.

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.

Dancing The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.

No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony.

And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

Comfort ye, my people speak ye peace, thus saith our God. Comfort those who sit in darkness, mourning 'neath their sorrow's load. For the glory of the Lord now o'er earth is shed abroad and all flesh shall see the token that His word is never broken.

They that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength they shall mount up with wings as eagles they shall run, and not be weary they shall walk and not faint.

Thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations, and thou shalt be called, the repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in.

Thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations, and thou shalt be called, the repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in.

A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation.

I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.

I belong to an ancient, idle, wild, and useless tribe... I am a storyteller.

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist Give me leave to do my utmost.

The lottery is a tax on people who flunked math.

On reflection, one of the things I needed to learn was to allow myself to be loved.

Of all possessions wisdom alone is immortal.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.