Nature cannot be surprised in undress. Beauty breaks in everywhere.

There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says anywhere but here.

Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life in graveyards. Reptile or mollusk or man or angel only exists in system, in relation.

All science is transcendental or else passes away.

The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.

The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul.

The never-ending task of self improvement.