We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor.

WE begin to die not in our sense or extremities, but in our divine faculties.

I grow savager and savager every day, as if fed on raw meat, and my tameness is only the repose of untamableness. I dream of looking abroad summer and winter, with free gaze, from some mountain-side,... to be nature looking into nature with such easy sympathy as the blue-eyed grass in the meadow looks in the face of the sky. From some such recess I would put forth sublime thoughts daily, as the plant puts forth leaves.

Every nail driven should be as another rivet in the machine of the universe, you carrying on the work.

Two thousand summers have imparted to the monuments of Grecian literature, as to her marbles, only a maturer golden and autumnal tint, for they have carried their own serene and celestial atmosphere into all lands to protect them against the corrosion of time.

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.

Nothing but great antiquity can make graveyards interesting to me. I have no friends there.