We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.

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A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.

A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.

Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every...

Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every...

All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear...

All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear...

If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame...

If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame...

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the...

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the...

Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is...

Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is...

We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror...

We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror...

The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.

The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.

Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which...

Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which...

The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and...

The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and...

In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more...

In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more...

It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of...

It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of...

Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance,...

Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance,...

A woman's beauty is one of her great missions

A woman's beauty is one of her great missions

We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing...

We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing...

Stay the course, light a star, Change the world where'er you are.

Stay the course, light a star, Change the world where'er you are.

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.

Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of...

Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of...

All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some...

All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some...

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with...

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with...