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

How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.

And what is Genius but finer love, a love impersonal, a love of the flower and perfection of things, and a desire to draw a new picture or copy of the same? It looks to the cause and life: it proceeds from within outward, whilst Talent goes from without inward.

There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.

As soon as a child has left the room his strewn toys become affecting.

Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you shall find there.

Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of water; in male and female; in the equation of quantity and quality; in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole an