This, Books can do;- nor this alone, they give 
New views to life, and teach us how to live;
They soothe the grieved, the stubborn they chastise, 
Fools they admonish, and confirm the wise:

THERE are only two rules for a successful holiday;  the first is to earn it, the second is to have just enough holiday to make the prospect of work pleasant.

THE cheerfulness of heart which springs up in us from the survey of Nature’s works, is an admirable preparation for gratitude.

REST is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means waste of time.

BEAUTY is far too much neglected.   It never belongs to criticism;  it ought by right to be always bound up with creation.

Music has been called the speech of angels;  I will go farther, and call it de speech of God Himself.

THAT man is blessed who every day is permitted to behold anything so pure and serene as the western sky at sunset, while revolutions vex the world.

Humour involves the perception of the true proportions of life…