The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a fine fringe on their edges, with here and there a blue mountain, like amethyst jewels set around some jewel of the first water, - so anterior, so superior, to all the changes that are to take place on their shores, even now civil and refined, and fair as they can ever be.

Those undeserved joys which come uncalled and make us more pleased than grateful are they that sing.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

The little things in life are as interesting as the big ones.

I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

The life without men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?