Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much likeness there is in each detail.

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being. -Henri

Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion without becoming its dupe.

Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee.

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.