The dice of God are always loaded.

The primary wisdom is intuition. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their origin.

Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness.

The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.

In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the spirit and splendour.

What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.

The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture. The continent we inhabit is to be physic andfood for our mind, as well as our body. The land, with its tranquilizing, sanative influences, is to repair the errors of a scholastic and traditional education, and bring us to just relations with men and things.