"Wisdom is more active than all active things and
reaches everywhere
by reason of her purity."

The Sebastian Forum

“When the earth is warm/ from the sun I do not see,/ life will be conscious of love.”
– Caryll Houselander, “The Convert”
“The blood of martyrs is the seed of the church.”
– Tertullian
“Wood hath hope, if it be cut, it groweth green again, and the boughs thereof sprout.”
– Job 14:7
“In looking over the yet uncultivated scene, the mind's eye may see far into futurity. Where the wolf roams, the plough shall glisten; on the gray crag shall rise temple and tower – mighty deeds shall be done in the now pathless wilderness; and poets yet unborn shall sanctify the soil.”
– Thomas Cole, “Essay on American Scenery”