The universe is but one vast symbol of God; nay, if thou wilt have it, what is man himself but a symbol of God; is not all that he does symbolical; a revelation to sense of the mystic god-given force that is in him; a "gospel of freedom," which he, the "Messias of Nature," preaches, as he can, by act and word? Carlyle.
The universe is full of love, but also of inexorable sternness and severity. Carlyle.
The universe is not dead and demoniacal, a charnel-house with spectres, but godlike, and my Father's. Carlyle.
The universe is one great city, full of beloved ones, human and divine, by nature endeared to each other. Epictetus.
The universe is that great egoist that decoys 45 us by the grossest bird-calls. Renan.
The universe is the realised thought of God. Carlyle.
The universe stands by him who stands by himself. Emerson.
The universe would not be rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man. St. Gregory.
The unlearned man knoweth not what it is to descend into himself and call himself to account; nor the pleasure of that most pleasant life which consists in our daily feeling ourselves become better. Sir Walter Raleigh.
The unlettered peasant, whose views are only directed to the narrow sphere around him, beholds Nature with a finer relish, and tastes her blessings with a keener appetite, than the philosopher whose mind attempts to grasp a universal system. Goldsmith.