We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organ of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing by ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm.

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

When the gods come among men, they are not known.

The man, who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world.

Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new.

The affirmative of affirmatives... is love.

My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.