If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

The new vulcanism is really a daring attempt to connect the present, incomprehensible world to a past, unknown one.

Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time.

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.

Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.