The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other country.

People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint.

In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.

If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

For all men live by truth, and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in politics, in labor, in games, we study to utter our painful secret. The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.

Is there a difference? Yes. We are in harmony with nature, but never at peace.