The flowers talk when the wind blows over them.

The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.

A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people limitlessly.

Let the man stand on his feet. Let religion cease to be occasional; and the pulses of thought that go to the borders of the universe, let them proceed from the bosom of the Household.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.

That man is idle who can do something better.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.