The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

O daisy mine, what will it be to look / From God's side even of such a simple thing?

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

The traveling heart went free / With endless streams; that strife was stopped; / And down a thousand vales I dropped, / I flowed to Italy.

the feet should have more of the acquaintance of earth, and know more of flowers, freshness, cool brooks, wild thyme, and salt sand than does anything else about us. ... It is only the entirely unshod that have lively feet.

It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.

Spring and autumn are inconsiderable events in a landscape compared with the shadows of a cloud.