It is the same among the men and women, as among the silent trees; always a referred existence, an absence, never a presence and satisfaction. Is it, that beauty can never be grasped? In persons and in landscape is equally inaccessible?

The narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity. The creeds of his church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the observatory.

The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every scrap of knowledge in art, every observation of his own in it, every hint he has caught from another. For the laws of beauty are the beauty of beauty, and give the mind the same or a higher joy than the sight of it gives the senses. The study of art is of high value to the growth of the intellect.

No man ever came to an experience which was satiating, but his good is tidings of a better. Onward and onward!

There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.

Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce.

Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend.