It is a great art to saunter !

Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures.

I do not know what right I have to so much happiness, but rather hold it in reserve till the time of my desert.

We are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us. We can never have enough of nature.

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

The scenery, when it is truly seen, reacts on the life of the seer. How to live. How to get the most of life.... How to extract its honey from the flower of the world.

You will pardon some obscurities, for there are more secrets in my trade than in most men's, and yet not voluntarily kept, but inseparable from its very nature. I would gladly tell all that I know about it, and never paint "No Admittance" on my gate.