Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.

Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.

Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.

Man carries the world in his head, the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended in a thought. Because the history of nature is charactered in his brain, therefore he is the prophet and discoverer of her secrets. Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

Other world? There is no other world; here or nowhere is the whole fact.

Life is too short to waste.

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.