One has so much time for thought in the country! However occupied one may be, 'tis with nothing that engrosses the mind, which works away on its own account like a mill-wheel.
Kings may see their palaces fall, but the ants will always have their dwellings.
Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
The errors of the intellect are fatal, still more dangerous than those of the heart.
Solitude causes us to write because it causes us to think.
How long time is when one is sad! Is it three years or three days since you went away?