John Zimmerman

Beauty is often worse than wine; intoxicating both the holder and beholder.

Put this restriction on your pleasures, be cautious that they injure no being that lives.

When in doubt, take more time.

When I write that I've known about something for a long time, that's not a boast. That's a confession. It's me acknowledging that I have withheld something important from the public.

When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.

Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man.