The present is burdened too much with the past. We have not time, in our earthly existence, to appreciate what is warm with life, and immediately around us.

The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.

There is no greater bugbear than a strong willed relative in the circle of his own connections.

It is a good lesson - though it may often be a hard one - for a man... to step aside out of the narrow circle in which his claims are recognized, and to find how utterly devoid of significance, beyond that circle, is all that he achieves, and all he aims at.

A few feathery flakes are scattered widely through the air, and hover downward with uncertain flight, now almost alighting on the earth, now whirled again aloft into remote regions of the atmosphere.