One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural in a good sense.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

Friendship takes place between those who have an affinity for one another, and is a perfectly natural and inevitable result. No professions nor advances will avail.... It is a drama in which the parties have no part to act.

It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.