It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.

We should read history as little critically as we consider the landscape, and be more interested by the atmospheric tints and various lights and shades which the intervening spaces create than by its groundwork and composition.

As the stars looked to me when I was a shepherd in Assyria, they look to me now as a New-Englander.

A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.

A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us.

Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable.