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. That is his best gift:. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

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.

Imagination draws on memory. Memory and imagination combined can stage a Servants' Ball or even write a book, if that's what they want to do.

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