A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.

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

Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.

Our life is nothing, it is true, but our life is divine. A breath of nature annihilates us, but we surpass nature in penetrating far beyond her vast phantasmagoria to the changeless and the eternal.