Fresh air is as good for the mind as for the body. Nature always seems trying to talk to us as if she had some great secret to tell. And so she has.

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.

Do not lay things too much to heart. No one is ever really beaten unless he is discouraged.

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

Love seems to beautify and inspire all nature. It raises the earthly caterpillar into the ethereal butterfly, it paints the feathers in spring, it lights the glowworm's lamp, it wakens the song of birds, and inspires the poet's lay. Even inanimate Nature seems to feel the spell, and flowers glow with the richest colours.

There can be no merit in believing something which you can neither explain nor understand.

Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.