Upon the highest ridge of that round hill covered with planted oaks, the shafts of the trees show in the light like the columns of a ruin.

An injudicious and malignant enemy often serves the cause he means to injure; but a feeble friend never attains that end.

Every question was like the snapping of a little thread about my heart.

I think one of the dullest things in the world is a letter filled with apologies for not writing sooner.

I found a strawberry blossom in a rock. I uprooted it rashly and felt as if I had been committing an outrage, so I planted it again.

The moon had the old moon in her arms.

The columbine ... is a graceful slender creature, a female seeking retirement, and growing freest and most graceful where it is most alone. I observed that the more shaded plants were always the tallest.