The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.
It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.
Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden.
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.
Every nation, every race, has not only its own creative, but its own critical turn of mind; and is even more oblivious of the shortcomings and limitations of its critical habits than of those of its creative genius.