Knowledge leads to unity, ignorance to diversity.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.