The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.

There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.

To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.

The worthless and offensive members of society, whose existence is a social pest, invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive, and never get over their astonishment at the ingratitude and selfishness of their contemporaries.

No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is the all-fair. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.

Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.

We change whether we like it or not.