The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

I'm not looking for sympathy at all.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.