The Profoundest Affinities Are Those Most Readily

To Condemn Spontaneous And Delightful Occupations Because They Are Useless For Self-preservation Shows An Uncritical Prizing Of Life Irrespective Of Its Content.

Beauty As We Feel It Is Something Indescribable; What It Is Or What It Means Can Never Be Said.

To Me, It Seems A Dreadful Indignity To Have A Soul Controlled By Geography.

To Most People, I Fancy, The Stars Are Beautiful; But If You Asked Why, They Would Be At A Loss To Reply, Until They Remembered What They Had Heard About Astronomy, And The Great Size And Distance And Possible Habitation Of Those Orbs. ... [we] Persuade Ourselves That The Power Of The Starry Heavens Lies In The Suggestion Of Astronomical Facts.

Wisdom Comes By Disillusionment.