It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.

True observers of nature, although they may think differently, will still agree that everything that is, everything that is observable as a phenomenon, can only exhibit itself in one of two ways. It is either a primal polarity that is able to unify, or it is a primal unity that is able to divide. The operation of nature consists of splitting the united or uniting the divided; this is the eternal movement of systole and diastole of the heartbeat, the inhalation and exhalation of the world in which we live, act, and exist.

A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.

One criticizes the English for carrying their teapots wherever they go, even lugging them up Mount Etna. But doesn't every nationhave its teapot, in which, even when traveling, it brews the dried bundles of herbs brought from home?

People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.