The ocean can be yours; why should you stop_x000D_ Beguiled by dreams of evanescent dew?_x000D_ The secrets of the sun are yours, but you_x000D_ Content yourself with motes trapped in beams.

We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

Of all tools, an observatory is the most sublime. . . . What is so good in a college as an observatory? The sublime attaches to the door and to the first stair you ascent, that this is the road to the stars.

One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.