Nature

Nothing is quite beautiful alone: nothing but is beautiful in the whole.

TO go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me

In God, every end is converted into a new means.

The central Unity is still more conspicuous in actions. Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it. An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature. "The wise man, in doing one thing, does all; or, in the one thing he does rightly, he sees the likeness of all which is done rightly."

Here again we are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know, is a point to what we do not know."

Man is conscious of a universal soul within or behind his individual life

Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.

All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is Taste.

In proportion to the energy of his thought and will, he takes up the world into himself.

"good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed!"