It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination

A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us.

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.

The newest is but the oldest made visible to our senses.

We have need to be earth-born as well as heaven-born, gegeneis, as was said of the Titans of old, or in a better sense than they.

What wisdom, what warning can prevail against gladness? There is no law so strong that a little gladness may not transgress.

I love a broad margin to my life. Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise til noon, rapt in a revery.