"The beautiful is a phenomenon which is..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.”

“There is no outward sign of true courtesy that does not rest on a deep moral foundation.”

“Every beginning is cheerful.”

“Although human ingenuity may devise various inventions which, by the help of various instruments, answer to one and the same purpose, yet will it never discover any inventions more beautiful, more simple or more practical than those of nature, because in her inventions there is nothing lacking and nothing superfluous; and she makes use of no counterpoise when she constructs the limbs of animals in such a way as to correspond to the motion of their bodies, but she puts into them the soul of the body.”

“A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world.”

“The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance.”

“When all is said and done, is there any more wonderful sight, any moment when man's reason is nearer to some sort of contact with the nature of the world than the sowing of seeds, the planting of cuttings, the transplanting of shrubs or the grafting of slips?”

“Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.”

“First you give life and action and guidance to ideas, then they take on power of their own and sweep aside all opposition.”