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There are three material things, not only useful, but essential to life. No one "knows how to live" till he has got them. These are pure air, water, and earth.
There are three immaterial things, not only useful, but essential to life. No one knows how to live till he has got them also. These are admiration, hope, and love.
Admiration -- the power of discerning and taking delight in what is beautiful in visible form and lovely in human character; and, necessarily, striving to produce what is beautiful in form and to become what is lovely in character.
Hope -- the recognition, by true foresight, of better things to be reached hereafter, whether by ourselves or others; necessarily issuing in the straightforward and undisappointable effort to advance, according to our proper power, the gaining of them.
Love -- both of family and neighbour, faithful and satisfied.
-- John Ruskin (copied from Celestial Seasonings tea box)
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