The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.

He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments - is the rich and royal man.

But genius is religious. It is a larger imbibing of the common heart.

The primary wisdom is intuition.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture.

War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.

Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.