A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.
What we don't understand we don't possess.
All understanding begins in wonder!
Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.
The web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up to find something necessary in what is capricious, and who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.