Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose.

The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit; they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds.

One lives but once in the world.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

A well-bred carriage is difficult to imitate; for in strictness it is negative, and it implies a long-continued previous training.