We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
All things keep on in everlasting motion, out of the infinite come the particles speeding above, below, in endless dance.
It is pleasant, with the sea raging under the winds, to gaze upon the great struggles of another from the land.
Human subtlety...will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.