There is one mind common to all individual men.
All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely, — but, by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature, and can then draw him at will in every attitude.
Every chemical substance, every plant, every animal in its growth, teaches the unity of cause, the variety of appearance.
All literature writes the character of the wise man.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.
Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence.
To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.