Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do and want to do is projected in our imagination, quite outside ourselves, and into the future. We are attracted to what is already ours in secret. Thus passionate anticipation transforms what is indeed possible into dreamt-for reality.

We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture...food for our mind, as well as our body.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

I like man, but not men.

I appeal now to the convictions of the communicants, and ask such persons whether they have not been occasionally conscious of a painful confusion of thought between the worship due to God and the commemoration due to Christ.

The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul