Quotes from "Nature"

• Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
• A man is fed, not that he may be fed, but that he may work.
• Therefore does beauty come unsought, and comes because it is unsought.
• Every object rightly seen, unlocks a new faculty of the soul.
• Each creature is only a modification of the other.
• When much intercourse with a friend has supplied us with a standard of excellence,... it is a sign to us that his office is closing, and he is commonly withdrawn from our sight in a short time.
• As long as the active powers predominate over the reflective, we resist with indignation any hint that nature is more short-lived or mutable than spirit.
• [It sees the world]... as one vast picture, which God paints on the instant eternity, for the contemplation of the soul... It is a watcher more than a doer, and it is a doer, only that it may the better watch.
• [The world]... its serene order is inviolable by us.
• The perception of this class of truths makes the attraction which draws men to science, but the end is lost sight of in attention to the means.
• The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is because man is disunited with himself.
• Build, therefore, your own world.