A well-bred carriage is difficult to imitate; for in strictness it is negative, and it implies a long-continued previous training.

The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.

Words express neither objects nor ourselves.

He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered.

The Primal Plant is going be the strangest creature in the world, which Nature herself must envy me. With this model and the key to it, it will be possible to go on for ever inventing plants and know that their existence is logical; that is to say, if they do not actually exist, they could, for they are not the shadowy phantoms of a vain imagination, but possess an inner necessity and truth. The same law will be applicable to all other living organisms.

A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others.

A lot of people do not care about your money until nearly penniless. They also do so with time