"Mannerism always wants to be finished and..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone.”

“The older I get the more I trust in the law according to which the rose and the lily bloom.”

“The Primal Plant is going be the strangest creature in the world, which Nature herself must envy me. With this model and the key to it, it will be possible to go on for ever inventing plants and know that their existence is logical; that is to say, if they do not actually exist, they could, for they are not the shadowy phantoms of a vain imagination, but possess an inner necessity and truth. The same law will be applicable to all other living organisms.”

“If you have a song to sing, who are you not to open your mouth and sing to the world?”

“There's almost nothing worse to live with than a struggling artist.”

“The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.”

“For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next.”

“All goals apart from the means are illusions; becoming is a denial of being.”

“Practice the art of patience for nature never acts in haste.”