Nothing can be more delicate without being fantastical, nothing more firm and based in nature and sentiment, than the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.

When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.

The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Lose yourself in nature and find peace

No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.