Any sincere thought is irresistible.

The press is, almost without exception, corrupt.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

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

If men were to be destroyed and the books they have written were to be transmitted to a new race of creatures, in a new world, what kind of record would be found in them of so remarkable a phenomenon as the rainbow?

When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip.

To see wild life you must go forth at wild season.