Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.
Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.
Childhood is but change made gay and visible.
O daisy mine, what will it be to look / From God's side even of such a simple thing?
The cloud controls the light ... It is the cloud that, holding the sun's rays in a sheaf as a giant holds a handful of spears, strikes the horizon, touches the extreme edge with a delicate revelation of light, or suddenly puts it out and makes the foreground shine.
It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.