"[Gresham's Law]: Bad money drives out good money."

“The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one of the most important branches of Biological science.”

Source : Henry Walter Bates (1864). “The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel”, p.413

“What we really need, after all, is not to defend the Bible but to understand it.”

“We are forbidden to neglect the assembling of ourselves together. Christianity is already institutional in the earliest of its documents. The Church is the Bride of Christ. We are members of one another.”

“Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.”

“I don't know what leadership is. You can't touch it. You can't feel it. It's not tangible. But I do know this: you recognize it when you see it.”

“I think if you study--if you learn too much of what others have done, you may tend to take the same direction as everybody else.”

“Pamela Palmer's stories catch you, captivate you, and never let you go.”

“With a little inner pirouette of excitement I realised just how much there was to look forward to tomorrow. The thought of being all day naked in the sun was delicious enough in itself, but there was the whole of our new world to explore.”