Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.

The sickness of the heart is most easily got rid of by complaining and soothing confidence.

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.

We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

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.