If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity, in which all things are absorbed, action tends directly back to diversity. The first is the course or gravitation of mind; the second is the power of nature. Nature is manifold. The unity absorbs, and melts or reduces. Nature opens and creates. These two principles reappear and interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many.

A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.

Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.

Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain.

Live in the sunshine.