As one sits here in summertime and listens to the cuckoo and all the other bird songs, the crackling and buzzing of insects, as one gazes at the shining colors of flowers, doth one become dumbstruck before the Kingdom of the Creator.

The names of the plants ought to be stable [certa], consequently they should be given to stable genera.

It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.

Botany is based on fixed genera.

There are some viviparous flies, which bring forth 2,000 young. These in a little time would fill the air, and like clouds intercept the rays of the sun, unless they were devoured by birds, spiders, and many other animals.

When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.

There is no generation from an egg in the Mineral Kingdom. Hence no vascular circulation of the humours as in the remaining Natural Kingdoms.