Flowers are the earth laughing.

Of Nature itself upon the soul; the sunrise, the haze of autumn, the winter starlight seem interlocutors; the prevailing sense is that of an exposition in poetry; a high discourse, the voice of the speaker seems to breathe as much from the landscape as from his own breast; it is Nature communing with the seer.

So use all that is called Fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all, and lose all, as her wheel rolls. But do thou leave as unlawful these winnings, and deal with Cause and Effect, the Chancellors of God.

It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.

All science is transcendental or else passes away.

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward.