Nature is goodness crystallized.

All that is told of the sea has a fabulous sound to an inhabitant of the land and all its products have a certain fabulous quality, as if they belonged to another planet.

Wherever men have lived, there is a story to be told

In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in dealing with truth we are immortal, and need fear no change nor accident.

God is alone,-but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion.

Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me.

We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain.