The nineteenth century was the last moment in history when a relatively educated layperson could follow what was going on in the world of science and invention to a wide degree. Also, there were no "professionals". This was a time when amateur explorers, naturalists and enthusiasts were are still making major contributions to progress.

That's what we're all sort of trying to do in our lives - to make the simplest things work out the best.

Devotion is diligence without assurance

If you're going to answer the call and you're going to transform and you're going to change, get ready. It is not a day at the beach.

It's so much easier and cheaper to keep the river uncontaminated in the first place than it is to clean it up again once it's been polluted.

I don't think you can say that feminism has made women critical of marriage because women have been critical of marriage for centuries.

I do not need to love you to prove that I love myself!!