Do thine own task, and be therewith content.

Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.

If it is the greatest truth that you seek, the plants can direct you.

Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.

Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.

One is never deceived; one deceives oneself.

The question "From where does the poet get it?" addresses only the what, nobody learns anything about the how when asking that question.