Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes.
nature has not changed. The night is still unsullied, the stars still twinkle, and the wild thyme smells as sweetly now as it did then ... We may be afflicted and unhappy, but no one can take from us the sweet delight which is nature's gift to those who love her and her poetry.
Years do not always make age.
a woman, when she is heroic, is not heroic by halves.
You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.