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.

Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.

In the colored reflection we have Life.

Every form correctly seen is beautiful

Nature! We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to us, but betrays not her secret. We constantly act upon her, and yet have no power over her. Variant: NATURE! We are surrounded and embraced by her: powerless to separate ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her.

It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing.

The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.