I want no more beliefs. What I want is active strength in those I have. I know there is no ghost round the corner, but I dare not go. * * * * * There is always a point in our insistence or persuasion when it is most effective, and generally it is much lower than we suppose. One degree above it is waste and impediment. * * * * * Keep a watch upon your tongue when you are in particularly good health. * * * * * Early morning before sunrise: the valley was filled with mist; red clouds in the sky. For a minute or two the mist took the colour, but fainter, of the clouds. What patience is required in order to see! The sun had not risen, the grass in the field was obviously green, but not without intent fixture of the eyes upon it was the dark, twilight shade of green recognised which was its peculiar meaning and beauty. To most of us, perhaps not to artists, it is more difficult to look than to think. * * * * * The just judgment is not that of the judge who has no interest in it. The most unjust judgments are due to indifference. * * * * * The sun is setting in crimson, delicate blue and green. I think of the earth as a revolving ball. ‘This was the Creator’s design, or, if we prefer so to speak, this was the law, that there should be a ball and that it should turn on its axis. But just as surely was it the design or law that there should be these colours, crimson, blue, and green, and that I should be affected by them. This affection was rolled up in the primal impulse which started the planet and is as necessary as its revolution. * * * * * Zeal in proselytising is often due to an uneasy suspicion that we only half-believe. * * * * * We should take pains to be polite to those whom we love. Politeness preserves love, is a kind of sheath to it. * * * * * The hornbeam hedge is coming into leaf in patches although all parts of each side face the same point of the compass. The leaves of some patches are fully expanded, while in others they are only in bud. The dry, brown, dead leaves of last year have remained through the winter and early spring, but they are dropping off now that the new leaves begin to shoot. * * * * * We ought not to expect every child to be religious. The religious temper is an endowment like that for painting or poetry. * * * * * A. and B. meet on the road. B. is a retired official and has nothing to do. _B._ ‘Meant to have come to see you several times’ (has not called for nine months), ‘but I have so many engagements.’ (Shows a basket.) ‘Look here, just had to take some eggs to C. for my wife.’ * * * * *