“If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.”

“Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.”

“I know I can trust in my heart…that she…dare I, can I express heaven in a few words? That she loves me.”

“We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.”

“The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.”

“When we treat man as he is we make him worse than he is. When we treat him as if he already was what he potentially could be We make him what he should be.”

“Through many a long day you'll be taught That what you once did without thinking, As easy as if it were eating or drinking, Must be done in order: one! two! three! But truly, this though factory of ours Is like some weaver's masterpiece: One treadle stirs a thousand threads, This way and that the shuttles whistle, Threads flow invisibly, one ... Read morestroke Ties a thousand knots .... The philosopher steps in And proves to you it had to be so; The first was so, the second was so, And therefore the third and fourth were so. If the first and second hadn't existed, The third and fourth would never have existed. And this is praised by every scholar, But never a one becomes a weaver. To know and describe a living thing You first get rid of all its spirit: Then the parts are all in the palm of your hand, And all that you lack is the spirit that binds them! Encheiresis naturae, chemists call it, And fool themselves and never know it”