Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

The public must learn how to cherish the nobler and rarer plants, and to plant the aloe, able to wait a hundred years for it's bloom, or it's garden will contain, presently, nothing but potatoes and pot-herbs.

Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.

When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy.

I accept the universe!

Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.