I verily believe that I never took infant in my arms that did not the moment it was there by its cries beg to be removed.

I never saw daffodils so beautiful. They grew among the mossy stones about and above them; some rested their heads upon these stones, as on a pillow, for weariness.

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.

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

Scotland is the country above all others that I have seen, in which a man of imagination may carve out his own pleasures; there are so many inhabited solitudes.

I verily believe that I never took infant in my arms that did not the moment it was there by its cries beg to be removed.

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.