Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name."

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

I come from nothing: but from where
come the undying thoughts I bear?

"Recurrence is sure. What the mind suffered last week, or last year, it does not suffer now; but it will suffer again next week or next year."

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.