Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

He who can be, and therefore is, another’s, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

Light is the greatest disinfectant in nature and also in organizations.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

I’m just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

I want to represent… to the kids to draw strength from me. So they can see that everybody goes through something, but you can rise up and do your best. Just try.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Anything I’ve ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also… your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.

I love the sea.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist.

Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle trickery, beautiful tightropes of logic on which one has to walk in order not to make a mistake in predicting what will happen. The quantum mechanical and the relativity ideas are examples of this.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

Every wall is a door.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship.

Where there is love there is life.

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.

How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.