The echo is, to some extent, an original sound, and therein is the magic and charm of it. It is not merely a repetition of what was worth repeating in the bell, but partly the voice of the wood; the same trivial words and notes sung by a wood-nymph.

In the winter, warmth stands for all virtue.

I learned what it is to live in the open air, and I learned that our lives are domestic in more sense than we think.

We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us, like the grass which confesses the influence of the slightest dew that falls on it; and did not spend our time in atoning for the neglect of past opportunities, which we call doing our duty.

The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.