Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

Realize that everything connects to everything else.

Every action done by nature is done in the shortest way.

O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.

Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

... we might say that the earth has a spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil, its bones the arrangement and connection of the rocks of which the mountains are composed, its cartilage the tufa, and its blood the springs of water.

All thoughts start from emotions.