It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision.

Do not require a description of the countries towards which you sail. The description does not describe them to you, and to- morrow you arrive there, and know them by inhabiting them.

When the gods come among men, they are not known.

Life is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade out of sight, and man becomes near-sighted, and can only attend towhat addresses the senses.

The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide. Him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him because he did not need it.

Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.

A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.