A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others

I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.

The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors.

No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.

Basic characteristics of an individual organism: to divide, to unite, to merge into the universal, to abide in the particular, to transform itself, to define itself, and as living things tend to appear under a thousand conditions, to arise and vanish, to solidify and melt, to freeze and flow, to expand and contract. Since these effects occur together, any or all may occur at the same moment.

Nature! We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to us, but betrays not her secret. We constantly act upon her, and yet have no power over her. Variant: NATURE! We are surrounded and embraced by her: powerless to separate ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her.

I believe in God and in nature and in the triumph of good over evil.