Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing.
The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.
Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.
No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.
There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.