Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe.

In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain-I find no sea room-but in great souls I sail before the wind without a watch, and never reach the shore.

I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

The first pleasant days of spring come out like a squirrel and go in again.

Columbus felt the westward tendency more strongly than any before. He obeyed it, and found a New World for Castile and Leon.

I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and threw them out the window in disgust.