It is the fashion to talk of our changing climate and bewail the hot summers and hard winters of tradition, but how seldom we pause to marvel at the remarkable constancy of the weather from year to year.

It was a morning of ground mist, yellow sunshine, and high rifts of blue, white-cloud-dappled sky. The leaves were still thick on the trees, but de-spangled gossamer threads hung on the bushes and the shrill little cries of unrest of the swallows skimming the green open park spaces of the park told of autumn and change.

happiness depends more upon the state of mind - and body, perhaps - than upon circumstances and events.

What is charm, it is not a moral quality, it is not intellectual for no man by much thinking is able to add a grain of it to his personality. One either has it or has it not, it cannot be acquired or even cultivated. It is not physical even, it seems to be added to the human personality, an aura, a glow, the gold dust upon a butterfly's wing, the bloom upon a peach.

Nature knows no calendar, the seasons move in a circle.

Alas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot.

Some great poet or philosopher once said that " he who goes to nature for comfort must go to her empty handed " , and I think he was right.