The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

Art is evidence of our most creative moment.

The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.

A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.