Beauty vanishes; virtue is lasting.

We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.

Mannerism always wants to be finished and doesn't enjoy the process. Genuine, truly great talent, however, finds its greatest satisfaction in the production.

Don't judge anyone harshly until you yourself have been through his experiences

Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.

As our inclinations, so our opinions.

Basic characteristics of an individual organism: to divide, to unite, to merge into the universal, to abide in the particular, to transform itself, to define itself, and as living things tend to appear under a thousand conditions, to arise and vanish, to solidify and melt, to freeze and flow, to expand and contract. Since these effects occur together, any or all may occur at the same moment.