How imperceptibly the first springing takes place!
You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.
Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.
He who cuts down woods beyond a certain limit exterminates birds.
I do not know but thoughts written down thus in a journal might be printed in the same form with greater advantage than if the related ones were brought together into separate essays.
Whatever beauty we behold, the more it is distant, serene, and cold, the purer and more durable it is. It is better to warm ourselves with ice than with fire.