God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.

Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy.

All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. It is vain to hurry it. By trusting it to the end it shall ripen into truth, and you shall know why you believe.

But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation.

All the elements, whose aid man calls in, will sometimes become big masters.

Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.

The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advancesto his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.