One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.

There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.

The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions.

Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.

No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.