"It was to Hofmeister, working as a young man, an amateur and enthusiast, in the early morning hours of summer months, before business, at Leipzig in the years before 1851, that the vision first appeared of a common type of Life-Cycle, running through Mosses and Ferns to Gymnosperms and Flowering Plants, linking the whole series in one scheme of reproduction and life-history."

“If you doubt your sins have been forgiven, that in itself is sin.”

“It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.”

“[The camera] may be said to make a picture of whatever it sees, the object glass is the eye of the instrument - the sensitive paper may be compared to the retina.”

Source : William Henry Fox Talbot (1992). “Henry Fox Talbot: Selected Texts and Bibliography”

“My only hope lies in my despair.”

“If a servant strives to please his master and studies and takes pains to do it, I believe there are but few masters who would use such a servant cruelly.”

Source : Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

“We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.”

“Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems.”

“There is no corruption but mere stealing in Nigeria”

Source : "Update: 2015: Choosing between “Two Devils”-Jonathan And Buhari,”corruption personified And Islamic-Bigot”; do you really have a choice in 2015?", republicreporters.com. November 6, 2014.