The most stupendous scenery ceases to be sublime when it becomes distinct, or in other words limited, and the imagination is no longer encouraged to exaggerate it. The actual height and breadth of a mountain or a waterfall are always ridiculously small; they are the imagined only that content us.

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.

I did not know that we had ever quarreled.

With wisdom we shall learn liberality.

I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.

Trees indeed have hearts.

Most men cry better than they speak. You get more nurture out of them by pinching than addressing them.