The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.

There is no country in which so absolute a homage is paid to wealth. In America there is a touch of shame when a man exhibits theevidences of large property, as if after all it needed apology. But the Englishman has pure pride in his wealth, and esteems it a final certificate. A coarse logic rules throughout all English souls: if you have merit, can you not show it by your good clothes and coach and horses?

The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.

Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.

Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.