Nature has neither core nor skin: she’s both at once outside and in.

What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.

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

A world without love would be no world.

The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn.

The safest thing is always to try to convert everything that is in us and around us into action; let the others talk and argue about it as they please.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.