[W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life." "I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think.

Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green; and the trees, though not fully clothed, were in that delightful state when farther beauty is known to be at hand, and when, while much is actually given to the sight, more yet remains for the imagination.

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine.