God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.

Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens.

A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.

Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.

I am primarily engaged to myself to be a public servant of all the gods, to demonstrate to all men that there is intelligence andgood will at the heart of all things, and even higher and yet higher leadings. These are my engagements; how can your law further or hinder me in what I shall do to men?

All things with which we deal preach to us. What is a farm but a mute gospel? The chaff and the wheat, weeds and plants, blight, rain, insects, sun,--it is a sacred emblem from the first furrow of spring to the last stack which the snow of winter overtakes in the fields.

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.