Not to appreciate life, all of life, is not to deserve it.

And you who wish to represent by words the form of man and all the aspects of his membrification, relinquish that idea. For the more minutely you describe the more you will confine the mind of the reader, and the more you will keep him from the knowledge of the thing described. And so it is necessary to draw and to describe.

Nature is constrained by the cause of her laws which dwell inborn in her. Variant: Nature is constrained by the order of her own law which lives and works within her.

The greater the man's soul, the deeper he loves.

The water which rises in the mountains is the blood which keeps the mountain in life.

Avoid studies of which the result dies with the worker.

The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.