You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

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.

When we are in health, all sounds fife and drum for us; we hear the notes of music in the air, or catch its echoes dying away when we awake in the dawn.

Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.

I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

Some have asked if the stock of men could not be improved,--if they could not be bred as cattle. Let Love be purified, and all therest will follow. A pure love is thus, indeed, the panacea for all the ills of the world.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.