The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day.

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery : He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. Tha…

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.