Terrestrial scenery is much, but it is not all. Men go in search of it; but the celestial scenery journeys to them; it goes its way round the world. It has no nation, it costs no wearinesss, it knows no bonds.

It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.

There is something very cheerful and courageous in the setting-out of a child on a journey of speech with so small baggage and with so much confidence.

In childhood we all have ... a far higher sensibility for April and April evenings - a heartache for them, which in riper years is gradually and irretrievably consoled.

There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple - leaves with an early moon.

If life is not always poetical, it is at least metrical.

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.