Wealth is measured by the level of experience in all aspects of life

We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.

Simplicity is the law of Nature for man as well as for flowers. When the tapestry (corolla) of the nuptial bed (calyx) is excessive, luxuriant, it is unproductive. The fertile flowers are single, not double.

The echo is, to some extent, an original sound, and therein is the magic and charm of it. It is not merely a repetition of what was worth repeating in the bell, but partly the voice of the wood; the same trivial words and notes sung by a wood-nymph.

As if there were safety in stupidity alone

It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination

There would be this advantage in traveling in your own country, even in your own neighborhood, that you would be so thoroughly prepared to understand what you saw you would make fewer traveler's mistakes.