God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

...is not Nature, rightly read, that of which she is commonly taken to be the symbol merely?

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.