As in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to the public.

Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it.

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

Truth is always paradoxical.

We are accustomed to say, that the mass of men are unprepared; but improvement is slow, because the few are not materially wiser or better than the many.

I love a broad margin to my life. Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise til noon, rapt in a revery.

On tops of mountains, as everywhere to hopeful souls, it is always morning.