A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of joys. One wry principle in the mind is of infinite consequence. – Thomas Traherne
To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness. – Thomas Traherne
Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child. – Thomas Traherne
Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Fathers palace and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels. – Thomas Traherne
Perform, then, this one act of remembrance before this Day passes – Remember there is an army of defense and advance that never dies and never surrenders, but is increasingly recruited from the eternal sources of the American spirit and from the generations of American youth. – W.J. Cameron