Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry.

Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.

Nature is thoroughly mediate. lt is made to serve. lt receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour rode. lt offers...

We mention nature and forget ourselves in it: we ourselves are nature, quand meme-. As result, nature is something entirely different from.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.

Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create...

As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas, Into main ocean they, this deed accursed An emblem yields to friends and enemies How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified By truth, shall spread, throughout the world dispersed.

Small service is true service while it lasts. Of humblest friends, bright creature! scorn not one: The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.

Thou has left behind powers that will work for thee,-air, earth, and skies! There's not a breathing of the common wind That will forget thee; thou hast great allies; Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind.

Now obey thy cherished secret wish, Embrace thy friends-leave all in order; To port and hawser's tie no more returning, Depart upon thy endless cruise, old Sailor!