We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

All art is but imitation of nature.

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

For greed all nature is too little.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.