An island always pleases my imagination, even the smallest, as a small continent and integral portion of the globe. I have a fancyfor building my hut on one. Even a bare, grassy isle, which I can see entirely over at a glance, has some undefined and mysterious charm for me.

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.

We can never have enough of Nature.

Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.

The lover wants no partiality. He says, Be so kind as to be just.

A true Friendship is as wise as it is tender. The parties to it yield implicitly to the guidance of their love, and know no otherlaw nor kindness.

I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.