That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.

If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse; if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.

Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.

To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.

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

Once more I am a wanderer, a pilgrim, through the world. But what else are you?

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.