I came to realize clearly that the mind is no other than the Mountain and the Rivers and the great wide Earth, the Sun and the Moon and the Sky”.

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

I awoke one day to find myself famous.

Old man! 'Tis not difficult to die.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Mark! Where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it-peace!