In praising or loving a child, we love and praise not that which is, but that which we hope for.

I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them.

The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.

There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

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.