No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.

Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn't have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord plays and the devil works the bellows.

In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!

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.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.