“Time is a blooming field: nature is ever teeming with life: and all is seed, and all is fruit.”

Love guides the stars towards each other, the world plan endures only through love.

Whatever lives, lives to die in sorrow. We engage our hearts, and grasp after the things of this world, only to undergo the pang of losing them.

Many a crown shines spotless now that yet was deeply sullied in the winning.

The key to education is the experience of beauty.

In the case of a creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell and only then does it review and inspect the multitudes.

Speech is always bolder than action.

Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds.

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

Joy is the mainspring in the whole Of endless Nature’s calm rotation. Joy moves the dazzling wheels that roll In the great Time-piece of Creation.

The world’s history is the world’s judgment.

It is play and only play that makes man complete.

I am better than my reputation.

One can give advice comfortably from a safe port.

Live with your century; but do not be its creature.

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

A healthy nature needs no God or immortality.

Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.

Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.

Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.

Success is a fruit of slow growth.

To truly taste the sweetness of the fruit, you must love the dirt it grows from.

Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.

Let your thoughts be related to what to want in life. They are the seeds, and your dream is the fruit.

Make only those thoughts in mind that you want to see happen, the thoughts are seeds and events are its fruits.