You cannot have a thing "matter" by itself which shall have no motion in it, nor yet a thing "motion" by itself which shall exist apart from matter; you must have both or neither. You can have matter moving much, or little, and in all conceivable ways; but you cannot have matter without any motion more than you can have motion without any matter that is moving.

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.

It is not sufficiently considered in the hour of exultation, that all human excellence is comparative; that no man performs much but in proportion to what other accomplish, or to the time and opportunities which have been allowed him.

I fall asleep in the full and certain hope That my slumber shall not be broken; And that, though I be all-forgetting, Yet shall I not be all-forgotten, But continue that life in the thoughts and deeds of those I have loved.