"In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life~~no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair."

Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.

The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point, and each in his several work to satisfy the love of beauty which stimulates him to produce.

Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair.

An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.