Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.

No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.

Where confidence is wanting, the most beautiful flower in the garland of love is missing.

Animals, we have been told, are taught by their organs. Yes, I would add, and so are men, but men have this further advantage that they can also teach their organs in return.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

The spirit from which we act is the principal matter.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.