The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

Accuracy is essential to beauty.

The only reward of virtue is virtue.

To the men of this world, to the animal strength and spirits, to the men of practical power, whilst immersed in it, the man of ideas appears out of his reason. They alone gave reason.

Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life in graveyards. Reptile or mollusk or man or angel only exists in system, in relation.

We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man, man.