Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

Children feel the whiteness of the lily with a graphic and passionate clearness which we cannot give them at all. The only thing we can give them is information-the information that if you break the lily in two it won't grow again.

Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.

There is no such thing as Success....That a thing is successful merely means that it is; a millionaire is successful in being a millionaire and a donkey in being a donkey.

Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.

It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant to his own imagination as he can.