Youth is everywhere in place.

The victories of character are instant, and victories for all.

Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.

A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspend their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward; a thought which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies, which breaks off on the approach of human feet.

Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone.

A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They accuse his silence with as much reason as they would blame the insignificance of a dial in the shade. In the sun it will mark the hour. Among those who enjoy his thought, he will regain his tongue.

Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her.