Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority.

Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.

Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man.

Unto a life which I call natural I would gladly follow even a will-o'-the-wisp through bogs and sloughs unimaginable, but no moonnor firefly has shown me the causeway to it.

The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.

The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. It is a fool's life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before.