"I've always used Old English in certain songs."

“But we were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments? Or our treaties whatever they may be worth; our symphonies however seldom they may be played; our peaceful acres, however frequently they may be converted into battlefields; our dreams however rarely they may be accomplished. The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses.”

Source : ROBERT ARDREY (1961). “AFRICAN GENISIS”

“The work ... was ... so blinding that I could scarcely see afterwards, and the difficulty was increased by the fact that my microscope was almost worn out, the screws being rusted with sweat from my hands and forehead, and my only remaining eye-piece being cracked... Fortunately invaluable oil-imraersion object-glass remained good.”

“President Wilford Woodruff is a man of wisdom and experience, and we respect and venerate him, but we do not believe his personal views or utterances are revelations from God; and when Thus saith the Lord, comes from him, the saints investigate it: they do not shut their eyes and take it down like a pill.”

“If all insects disappeared, all life on earth would perish. If all humans disappeared, all life on earth would flourish.”

“Come, blessed barrier between day and day, Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health!”

“Do you know that being a stranger is the hardest thing that can happen to any one in all this world?”

Source : Gene Stratton-Porter (2015). “Laddie: A True Blue Story”, p.17, Xist Publishing

“Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.”

“The first problem of communication is getting people's attention.”