“Whatever truths or fables you may find in a thousand books, it is all a tower of Babel unless love holds it together.”

“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.”

“Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.”

“What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.”

“The town itself is disagreeable; but then, all around, you find an inexpressible beauty of nature.”

“Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion.”

“Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess. ”