"He weeps! the falling drop puts out the sun; He sighs! the sigh earth's deep foundation shakes. If in His love so terrible, what then His wrath inflamed?"

"To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the et…"

"What is it, when all is accomplished, that still binds the Masters to the world of men? Not anything that the world can offer Them. There is no knowledge on earth They have not; there is no power on e…"

"this pure soul, this great realist, the first human being to attempt to become a citizen of the world. . . this down-to-earth passion."

"Why are all reflections lovelier than what we call the reality? — not so grand or so strong, it may be, but always lovelier?"