The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.

When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.

Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?...The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature. To think is to act.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind