The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.

The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.

The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.

More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only to read the newspapers to see how sympathetic are the times to any generous and adventurous display of the passions.

Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another.

We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that she has any concern with the temporal affairs of man.

We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of the winds and the streams, the vanishing road of beloved faces.