Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the deed, is living and can live on.

The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.

If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere."

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.

Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.