At the extreme north, the voyagers are obliged to dance and act plays for employment.

As long as there is satire, the poet is, as it were, particeps criminis.

It is remarkable how many creatures live wild and free though secret in the woods.

The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same one at the same moment!

The very dogs that sullenly bay the moon from farm-yards in these nights excite more heroism in our breasts than all the civil exhortations or war sermons of the age.

Men sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but the adventurous student will always study classics, in whatever language they may be written and however ancient they may be. For what are the classics but the noblest recorded thoughts of man?... We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.

Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.