“Saya yakin ujian pertama bagi orang besar adalah kerendahan hati.”

“Membaca, berpikir, mencintai dan berdoa,hal-hal inilah yang membuat orang berbahagia.”

“If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses”

“To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.”

“Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness.”

“Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.”

“The greatest thing a human being ever does in this world is to see something... To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.”