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.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round Saturn.

For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.

No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always conscious.

Lay hold of life with both hands, whenever thou mayest seize it, it is interesting.

Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.