"Wherever flowers cannot be reared, there man..." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”

“Where the Government is weak, military sway prevails.”

“I drink Champagne when I win, to celebrate...and I drink Champagne when I lose, to console myself.”

“In nature alone are forms. That which is not of nature cannot have any forms, fine or gross. It must be formless.”

“The change from storm and winter to serene and mild weather, from dark and sluggish hours to bright and elastic ones, is a memorable crisis which all things proclaim. It is seemingly instantaneous at last.”

“I lean and loaf at my ease... observing a spear of summer grass.”

“Today we understand that the future of humanity very much depends on our planet, and that the future of the planet very much depends on humanity.”

“Global warming is not just the greatest environmental challenge facing our planet - it is one of our greatest challenges of any kind.”

“The earth has enough resources for our need, but not for our greed.”