Terrestrial scenery is much, but it is not all. Men go in search of it; but the celestial scenery journeys to them; it goes its way round the world. It has no nation, it costs no wearinesss, it knows no bonds.

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.

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

There is something very cheerful and courageous in the setting-out of a child on a journey of speech with so small baggage and with so much confidence.

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

A wall is the safeguard of simplicity.