Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue where patience honor sweet humility and calm fortitude take root and strongly flourish.

The historic ascent of humanity taken as a whole may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature in society in man himself.

I'd love to go back to Europe in the '20s and '30s for the beginning of the Psychoanalytic Movement and Freud and Jung and all that was going on with discoveries in quantum physics. The whole nature of reality was changing and being challenged.

The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.

What constitutes a real live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days and men each one of whom is a valuable unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written as with a sunbeam in the whole volume of human nature by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased.

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

The snow itself is lonely or if you prefer self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.