We have reason to be grateful for celestial phenomena, for they chiefly answer to the ideal in man.

There are two classes of men called poets. The one cultivates life, the other art,... one satisfies hunger, the other gratifies the palate.

I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors as readily as any way .

Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good.

I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her. There a different kind of right prevails. In her midst I can be glad with an entire gladness. If this world were all man, I could not stretch myself, I should lose all hope. He is constraint, she is freedom to me. He makes me wish for another world. She makes me content with this.

He who receives an injury is to some extent an accomplice of the wrong-doer.

It is a great art to saunter !