The universe is the externisation of the soul. Wherever the life is, that bursts into appearance around it. Our science is sensual, and therefore superficial. The earth, and the heavenly bodies, physics, and chemistry, we sensually treat, as if they were self-existent; but these are the retinue of that Being we have.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Man is a piece of the universe made alive

A man is related to all nature.

Blame is safer than praise

Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.

Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart's desire.