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

In this world we do not see things as they are. We see them as we are, because what we see depends mainly on what we are looking for.

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

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.

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

Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.

Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.