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

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.

Only through Beauty’s morning-gate, dost thou penetrate the land of knowledge.

The May of life blooms once and never again.

In the ardor of pursuit men soon forget the goal from which they start.

In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.

Appearance rules the world.

To know thyself- in others self-concern; Would’st thou know others? read thyself–and learn!

The zeal of friends it is that razes me, And not the hate of enemies.

Illusion is brief, but repentance is long.

Votes should be weighed not counted.

He that is over-cautious will accomplish but very little.

In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims.

Humiliating people in the name of religion is the practice of someone deprived of the first fruit of religion, humility.

Mountaintops are for views and inspiration, but fruit is grown in the valleys.

Go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.

I eat a lot of salad, a little meat, and some fruit—that’s all. But I like sweets.

Contentment is both the fruit and the tree.

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

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.