The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away.

There is to me a daintiness about early flowers that touches me like poetry. They blow out with such a simple loveliness among the common herbs of pastures, and breathe their lives so unobtrusively, like hearts whose beatings are too gentle for the world.

The highest triumph of art, is the truest presentation of nature.

There is no divining-rod whose dip shall tell us at twenty what we shall most relish at thirty.

The taste forever refines in the study of women.

One gets, sensitive about losing mornings after getting a little used to them with living in a country. Each one of these endlessly varied daybreaks is an opera but once performed.