Therefore for all intelligible human purposes, for altering things or for keeping things as they are, for founding a system for ever, as in China, or for altering it every month as in the early French Revolution, it is equally necessary that the vision should be a fixed vision.

This is our first requirement.
When I had written this down, I felt once again the presence of something else in the discussion: as a man hears a church bell above the sound of the street.

Something seemed to be saying, "My ideal at least is fixed; for it was fixed before the foundations of the world.

My vision of perfection assuredly cannot be altered; for it is called Eden.

You may alter the place to which you are going; but you cannot alter the place from which you have come.