When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.

These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a god- like ease and power.

Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep.

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

Everything has its price - and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained... it is impossible to get anything without this price.

A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

Some men at the approach of a dispute neigh like horses. Unless there be an argument, they think nothing is doing. Some talkers excel in the precision with which they formulate their thoughts, so that you get from them somewhat to remember; others lay criticism asleep by a charm. Especially women use words that are not words,--as steps in a dance are not steps,--but reproduce the genius of that they speak of; as the sound of some bells makes us think of the bell merely, whilst the church chimes in the distance bring the church and its serious memories before us.