To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity.
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.