You can only possess beauty through understanding it.

Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.

The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly.

No day is without its innocent hope.

There is no climate, no place, and scarcely an hour, in which nature does not exhibit color which no mortal effort can imitate or approach. For all our artificial pigments are, even when seen under the same circumstances, dead and lightless beside her living color; nature exhibits her hues under an intensity of sunlight which trebles their brilliancy.

The only way to understand these difficult parts of the Bible, or even to approach them with safety, is first to read and obey the easy ones.

That man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is always going on to know.