“All of nature is a battlefield”

“Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, alltogether incalculable ”

“God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them. ”

“The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further”

“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin”

“All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child”