Quotes about Harmony

The ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong

If a man is at once acquainted with the geometric foundation of things and with their festal splendor, his poetry is exact and his arithmetic musical.

The world thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty. This

A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engrafted with a foreign stock.

No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.

the sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them and proceed obviously from the same source... Here is the fountain of action and of thought... We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

Love is as much its demand as perception. Indeed, neither can be perfect without the other.

laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face

For the secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.

Nature is transcendental, exists primarily, necessarily, ever works and advances, yet takes no thought for the morrow.

When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature. The boat at St. Petersburgh, which plies along the Lena by magnetism, needs little to make it sublime. When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.