Sometimes I don't understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully, grasp nothing, know nothing, have nothing but her!

Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.

In art, the best is good enough.

He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.

He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.

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.

Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.