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 are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

Love is our highest word and the synonym of God.

Life has a way of demanding that you live it.