Opportune are all the days when health spills over at the eye and ear and laughs through the lips.

Men worn out are like overshot wheels--the life trickles and the buckets are filled slowly by long rests and frequent vacations.

Young men are like undershot wheels--always, by day and night, the water overflows the banks.
Each morning the young soul wakens to the supreme luxury of living.
The world is a great beaker brimmed with wine of the gods.

The truth and beauty of field and forest and river give a pleasure that is exquisite to a keenly sensitive and perfectly healthy youth.

Like an Aeolian harp, the slightest breath avails for wakening melody midst its strings.