The mystic too full of God to speak intelligibly to the world.

Hardly any one is able to see what is before him, just as it is in itself. He comes expecting one thing, he finds another thing, he sees through the veil of his preconception, he criticizes before he has apprehended, he condemns without allowing his instinct the chance of asserting itself.

Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders.

A place has almost the shyness of a person, with strangers; and its secret is not to be surprised by a too direct interrogation.

There is not a dream which may not come true, if we have the energy which makes, or chooses, our own fate.... It is only the dreams of those light sleepers who dream faintly that do not come true.

But we have been taught to see before our eyes have found out a way of seeing for themselves.

Here in a little lonely room I am master of earth and sea, And the planets come to me.