"As the tree is bent, so it will grow."

"What good is it if I talk in flowers while you're thinking in pastry?"

"Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it."

"“By Labor the North has subdued Nature, changed a parsimonious soil to fertility, built dwellings for almost her whole population, raised the school-house, established the Church, encircled the globe with her ships, and made her books and her papers to be as blades of grass and as leave of the Summer for number. But in the South, labor, a badge of shame, is the father of misery. The slave labors, but with no cheer—it is not the road to respectability, it will honor him with no citizens’ trust, it brings no bread to his family, no grain to his garner, no leisure in after-days, no books or papers to his children. It opens no school-house door, builds no church, rears for him no factory, lays no keel, fills no bank, earns no acres. With sweat and toil and ignorance he consumes his life, to pour the earnings into channels from which he does no drink, into hands that never honor him. But perpetually rob and often torment.”"

"Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky"

"The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy."

"The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter."

"The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature."

"It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree."

"Astrology has no more useful function than this, to discover the inmost nature of a man and to bring it out into his consciousness, that he may fulfil it according to the law of light."

"Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales."

"I've always liked reptiles. I used to see the universe as a mammoth snake, and I used to see all the people and objects, landscapes, as little pictures in the facets of their scales. I think peristaltic motion is the basic life movement. Swallowing,"

"All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit."

"No speech can stain what is noble by nature."

"Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy."

"Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny."

"Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art."

"It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others."

"The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson."

"Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man."

"It is like the seed put in the soil -- the more one sows, the greater the harvest."

"Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur."

"Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away."

And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow.