“If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.”

“Four seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the mind of man”

“Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools”

“Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear”

“Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match”

“We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing”