If you are chosen town clerk, forsooth, you cannot go to Tierra del Fuego this summer; but you may go to the land of infernal fire nevertheless.

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.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.

We saw men haying far off in the meadow, their heads waving like the grass which they cut. In the distance the wind seemed to bend all alike.

The violence of love is as much to be dreaded as that of hate.

When my legs begin to move, the thoughts begin to flow.