Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.

To me the external existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity. If I work incessantly until my death, nature will give me another form of existence when the present can no longer sustain my spirit.

As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim; So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth, eternal Reason, Which from Beauty takes its dress, And serene through time and season Stands aye in loveliness.

There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows.

Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.

Win for yourself that which your fathers have won.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life!