I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast.
Economy is a way of spending money without getting any pleasure out of it.
The existence of a world without God seems to me less absurd than the presence of a God, existing in all of his perfection, creating imperfect man in order to make him run the risk of Hell.
Nature is a vast tablet, inscribed with signs, each of which has its own significancy, and becomes poetry in the mind when read; and geology is simply the key by which myriads of these signs, hitherto indecipherable, can be unlocked and perused, and thus a new province added to the poetical domain.
The red sun was pasted in the sky like a wafer.
My fundamental philosophy is that you owe it to society to transfer to them any knowledge you have that might be useful.
To enter Europe, you must have a valid passport with a photograph of yourself in which you look like you are being booked on charges of soliciting sheep.