Man's abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger than his individual life, the idea of his country, of humanity, of God.

I believe in a spiritual world - not as anything separate from this world - but as its innermost truth. With the breath we draw we must always feel this truth, that we are living in God.

Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.

Ah, thou hast made my heart captive in the endless meshes of thy music, my master!

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

And joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass; in the blue serenity of the sky.

God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land.