Oh happy he who still can hope in our day to breathe the truth while plunged in seas of error! What we don't know is really what we need, and what we know is of no use to us whatever!

Only the soul that loves is happy

What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.

Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.

Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.

A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.

Few people have the imagination for reality.