Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
It is easier to be mistaken about the true than the beautiful.
Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.
All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.
Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.
To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap.