“The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.”

Nature is none other than God in things. Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; whence all of God is in all things. Think thus, of the sun in the crocus, in the narcissus, in the heliotrope, in the rooster, in the lion.

That which we have lived is nothing; that which we live is a point; that which we have to live is not yet a point, but may be a point which, together, shall be and shall have been.

What you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue; but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own.

I have declared infinite worlds to exist beside this our earth. It would not be worthy of God to manifest Himself in less than an infinite universe.

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority.

The universe is then one, infinite, immobile. … It is not capable of comprehension and therefore is endless and limitless, and to that extent infinite and indeterminable, and consequently immobile.

Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.

There is no absolute up or down, as Aristotle taught; no absolute position in space; but the position of a body is relative to that of other bodies.

I do not know when, but I know that many have come in this century to develop arts and sciences, sow the seeds of a new culture that will flourish, unexpected, sudden, just when the power is deluded into believing they have won.

Divine love does not weigh down, nor carry his servant captive and enslaved to the lowest depths, but raises him, supports him and magnifies him above all liberty whatsoever.

I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.

The one infinite is perfect , in simplicity , of itself, absolutely, nor can aught be greater or better, This is the one Whole, God , universal Nature , occupying all space, of whom naught but infinity can give the perfect image or semblance.

I don’t care if 1 is prime or not, if 2 is prime or not, if 3 is prime or not. All I care is that there are more stars in the heavens than primes in the earth.

It is unity that doth enchant me. By her power I am free though thrall, happy in sorrow, rich in poverty, and quick even in death.

Nature is none other than God in all things. Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; Whence all of God is in all things.

My son, I do not say these are foals and those asses, these little monkeys and those great baboons, as you would have me do. As I told you from the first,

You can be a gem yet would be considered a rock, it all depends on the mindset.

The richest gem of all. How many pearls and precious stones Are scattered all about The outer court that lies before The chamber of your heart!

Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.

Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill.

To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.

The gift of independence once granted cannot be lightly taken away again.

No honest theologian therefore can deny that his acceptance of Jesus as Christ logically binds every Christian to a belief in reincarnation – in Elias case (who was later John the Baptist) at least.

She is the rarest sun gem birthed from the deepest core of Earth sanity.