Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.

As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.

There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always loaded; that in her heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results.

Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.

But, if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from these heavenly worlds, will separate between him and what he touches. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime... But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.