“Praise and esteem bring about skill where skill deserves comendation. When wisdom is adorned with praise it blossoms in profusion.”

“There are so many today who are given to judging the good bad and the bad good. They act not to right but to cross purpose.”

“We sow the seed of deadly nightshade and wish it to bear lilies and roses!”

“Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.”

“Nature has established patterns originating in the return of events, but only for the most part. New illnesses flood the human race, so that no matter how many experiments you have done on corpses, you have not thereby immposd a limit on the nature of events so that in the future they could not vary.”

“Es sind die kleinen Dinge, die die Welt vergrößern.”

“Wie tief im Menschen leben jede jener Fabeln: wurzelt, auf welche die großen alten Werke gebaut sind.”