There is always a best way of doing everything.

Who are the farmer's servants? ... Geology and Chemistry, the quarry of the air, the water of the brook, the lightning of the cloud, the castings of the worm, the plough of the frost.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast