The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere. – Empedocles

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. – Alfred North Whitehead

[H]e ran, he stopped—he dipped his glowing face into the cloud of blossoming bushes, and would fain lose himself in the humming world between the leaves; he pressed the scratched face into the deep, cooling grass, and hung delirious on the breast of the immortal mother of Spring. – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Hesperus, or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography,