Life is a great gift, and as we reach years of discretion, most of us naturally ask ourselves what should be the main object of our existence.

Our own happiness ought not to be our main objective in life.

The veil is slowly rising, but as regards innumerable questions we must be content to remain in ignorance.

We are all great landed proprietors, if we only knew it. What we lack is not land, but the power to enjoy it. Moreover, this great inheritance has the additional advantage that it entails no labor, requires no management. The landlord has the trouble, but the landscape belongs to everyone who has eyes to see it.

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world-not with money and titles, horses and carriages, but with bright and happy thoughts, contentment and peace of mind.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.