Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success. – Thornton Wilder
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. – Thornton Wilder
It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness. – Thornton Wilder
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. – Thornton Wilder