In Nature, all is useful, all is beautiful

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Look out! Behind you!

A man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors.

A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.