In nature answers are given quietly, in the details, just waiting for discovery. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife

God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals? – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave. – Sallust

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star. – Edwin Hubbel Chapin