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Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness.

As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

It has been the happy combination of art and science which has trained us to perceive the beauty which surrounds us.

Education ought not to cease when we leave school; but if well begun there, will continue through life.

Moreover, whatever our occupation or profession in life may be, it is most desirable to create for ourselves some other special interest.

Whatever may be the subject of our choice, we shall find enough, and more than enough, to repay the devotion of a lifetime.

A lunch of bread and cheese after a good walk is more enjoyable than a Lord Mayor's feast.

There is, however, a true Music of Nature,--the song of birds, the whisper of leaves, the ripple of waters upon a sandy shore, the wail of wind or sea.

In endless aspects science is as wonderful and interesting as a fairy tale.

In short, children should be trained to observe and to think, for in that way there would be opened out to them a source of the purest enjoyment for leisure hours, and the wisest judgment in the work of life.

Any one who will sit down quietly on the grass and watch a little will be indeed surprised at the number and variety of living beings, every one with a special history of its own, every one offering endless problems of great interest.

How much more interesting would every walk in the country be, if Man would but treat other animals with kindness, so that they might approach us without fear, and we might have the constant pleasure of watching their winning ways.

Without water no landscape is complete, while overhead the clouds add beauty to the heavens themselves.

Books, we know, are almost innumerable; our hours for reading are, alas! very few.

How thankful we ought to be for these inestimable blessings, for this numberless host of friends who never weary, betray, or forsake us!

In reading, however, it is most important to select subjects in which one is interested.

It is wonderful how much innocent happiness we thoughtlessly throw away.

To any lover of books the very mention of these names brings back a crowd of delicious memories, grateful recollections of peaceful home hours, after the labors and anxieties of the day.

So far is a thorough love and enjoyment of travel from interfering with the love of home, that perhaps no one can thoroughly enjoy his home who does not sometimes wander away.

Everything kept in joyful rhythmic motion in the pulses of Nature's big heart.

The whole world seems richer now that I have found this plant in so noble a landscape.

To the sane and free it will hardly seem necessary to cross the continent in search of wild beauty, however easy the way, for they find it in abundance wherever they chance to be.

After listening to it in all kinds of winds, night and day, season after season, I think I could approximate to my position on the mountains by this pine-music alone.

Every feature became more rigidly alpine, without, however, producing any chilling effect; for going to the mountains is like going home.

Liberty and law have marched hand in hand.