Our vices always lie in the direction of our virtues, and in their best estate are but plausible imitations of the latter.

Give me a Wildness whose glance no civilization can endure.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking.

I say, break the law.

If I wished to see a mountain or other scenery under the most favorable auspices, I would go to it in foul weather, so as to be there when it cleared up; we are then in the most suitable mood, and nature is most fresh and inspiring. There is no serenity so fair as that which is just established in a tearful eye.

It often happens that a man develops a deeper love and friendship with his pet cat or dog than he does with most of the other humans in his life.