Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand.

If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant; to attain, in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory; we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks.

Art is man added to Nature.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

I don't believe art is available; it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated; one is more aware of its magic the more it is isolated.