My heart swelled with uncontrollable delight.

Great men show politeness in a particular way; a smile suffices to assure you that you are welcome, and keep about their avocations as if you were a member of the family.

Never give up listening to the sounds of birds.

Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.

All trembling, I reached the Falls of Niagara, and oh, what a scene! My blood shudders still, although I am not a coward, at the grandeur of the Creators power; and I gazed motionless on this new display of the irresistible force of one of His elements.

To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule.

The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.