Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.