I have known some grim bells, with not a single joyous note in the whole peal, so forced to hurry for a human festival, with their harshness made light of, as though the Bishop of Hereford had again been forced to dance in his boots by a merry highwayman.

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

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

There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple - leaves with an early moon.

It is principally for the sake of the leg that a change in the dress of man is so much to be desired. The leg is the best part of the figure and the best leg is the man s. Man should no longer disguise the long lines, the strong forms, in those lengths of piping or tubing that are of all garments the most stupid.

Let us turn to our own childhoods-no further-if we will renew our sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.

Rome in the ages, dimmed with all her towers, / Floats in the mist, a little cloud at tether.