The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

You must ascend a mountain to learn your relation to matter, and so to your own body, for it is at home there, though you are not.

The life without men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

With wisdom we shall learn liberality.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.