There have been heroes for whom this world seemed expressly prepared, as if creation had at last succeeded; whose daily life was the stuff of which our dreams are made, and whose presence enhanced the beauty and ampleness of Nature herself.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

If one listens to the faintest but constant suggestions of his genius, which are certainly true, he sees not to what extremes, or even insanity, it may lead him; and yet that way, as he grows more resolute and faithful, his road lies.

If we see nature as pausing, immediately all mortifies and decays; but seen as progressing, she is beautiful.

If some are prosecuted for abusing children, others deserve to be prosecuted for maltreating the face of nature committed to their care.

He who is conversant with the supernal powers will not worship these inferior deities of the wind, waves, tide, and sunshine. Butwe would not disparage the importance of such calculations as we have described. They are truths in physics because they are true in ethics.

Resign yourself to the influence of the earth.