To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.
Truth above all, even when it upsets us and overwhelms us.
A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.
A microscopic phantom of the universe; this is all that we are able to be.
Joy is the vital air of the soul.
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.