Nature is the symbol of Spirit.

The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

In all conversation between two persons, tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party or common nature is not social; it is impersonal; is God.

Cities give not the human senses room enough. We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon, and require so much scope, just as we need water for our bath.

A man should carry nature in his head.

The hero is suffered to be himself.