"When nothing is valued for what it is, everything is destined to be wasted. Once the values of things refer only to t…"

"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened, Happiness…"

"The date had arrived, the idyll was over and my metamorphosis was complete. I was now that impossibly oxymoronic. I w…"

"There was nothing left of earth: They had leached away the last atoms of its substance. It had nourished them, throug…"

"The sympathy of the poet with the subjects of his poetry is particularly remarkable in Shakespeare and Chaucer; but w…"

"Metamorphosis and Life Cycle w:ModularityModularity All individuals of the "higher" insects — the butterflies and mot…"

"For if in any manner we can stimulate this instinct, new passages are opened for us into nature; the mind flows into …"

"It is not only a question of the process of the transformation, but also, that a visible sign is brought out, which p…"

"[F]rom left to right as 'something unique in natural history … the first metamorphosis of a butterfly back into a slug."

"I am, a spectator, so to speak of the molecular whirlwind which men call individual life; I am conscious of an incess…"