Beauty

       Beauty means this to one and that to the other. And yet when anyone of us has seen that which to him is beautiful, he has known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind.

        A ship in sail,,a lovely poem, leaf shadows, a child's grace, the starry skies, apple trees in spring, the thought of beauty. These are the drops of rain that keep the human spirit from death by drought. They are a stealing and silent refreshment that we perhaps do not think about, but which goes on all the time.

      Beauty is the smile on the earth's face, open to all, and needs but the eyes to see, mood to understand.