The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age.

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.

Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of a happy moment can be insignificant.

If it is the greatest truth that you seek, the plants can direct you.

Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions.