“All things transient are but a parable.”

“The Beginning and end of all literary activity is the reproduction of the world that surrounds me by means of the world that is in me, all things being grasped, related, recreated, molded, and reconstructed in a personal form and original manner.”

“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”

“It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing.”

“Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.”

“It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.”

“Basic characteristics of an individual organism: to divide, to unite, to merge into the universal, to abide in the particular, to transform itself, to define itself, and as living things tend to appear under a thousand conditions, to arise and vanish, to solidify and melt, to freeze and flow, to expand and contract. Since these effects occur together, any or all may occur at the same moment.”