What youth or maiden conspires with the wild luxuriant beauty of Nature? She flourishes most alone, far from the towns where they reside.

In some countries a hunting parson is no uncommon sight. Such a one might make a good shepherd's dog, but is far from being the Good Shepherd.

We are the subjects of an experiment which is not a little interesting to me.

Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Here I am thirty-four years old, and yet my life is almost wholly unexpanded. How much time is in the germ! There is such an interval between my ideal and the actual in many circumstances that I may say I am unborn.