Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.

There are like to be short graces where the devil plays host.

Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea.

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.

I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.

In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.