“What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in which some species of living plant is situated.”

The form follows the function.

It is not always the magnitude of the differences observed between species that must determine specific distinctions, but the constant preservation of those differences in reproduction.

It is not enough to discover and prove a useful truth previously unknown, but that it is necessary also to be able to propagate it and get it recognized.

All knowledge that is not the real product of observation, or of consequences deduced from observation, is entirely groundless and illusory.

Habits form a second nature.

All known living bodies are sharply divided into two special kingdoms, based upon the essential differences which distinguish animals from plants, and in spite of what has been said, I am convinced that these two kingdoms do not really merge into one another at any point.

It is not the organs-that is, the character and form of the animal’s bodily parts-that have given rise to its habits and particular structures. It is the habits and manner of life and the conditions in which its ancestors lived that have in the course of time fashioned its bodily form, its organs and qualities.

Every dog, we are told, has his day, unless there are more dogs than days.

Why does it take two days for a polaroid of John Major to appear?

Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as though they were to exist for ever, they disappear into the obscure cloud of immortality, uncertain of the fate which lies in store for them.

You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don’t want to face.

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

They delayed it till just a few days before al-Ghouta when they sent those team, and the team itself said in its report that he did everything as he wanted. There was not a single obstacle.

Those who see worldly life as an obstacle to Dharma see no Dharma in everyday actions. They have not yet discovered that there are no everyday actions outside of Dharma.

Tomorrow is another day, we rather hope it will be better but better it won’t be unless self-foibles are examined.