Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.

Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.

Human beings do not know their place and purpose. They have fallen from their true place, and lost their true purpose. They search everywhere for their place and purpose, with great anxiety. But they cannot find them because they are surrounded by darkness.

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.

Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit. Everything is created and conducted by the same Master-the root, the branch, the fruits-the principles, the consequences.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.