The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.

Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed, Cannot withhold his conquering aid.

Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew, and force the children to ask them questions for an hour against their will.

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

Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?

History no longer shall be a dull book. It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man. You shall not tell me by language and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read. You shall make me feel what periods you have lived.

It is said that when manners are licentious, a revolution is always near: the virtue of woman being the main girth and bandage ofsociety; because a man will not lay up an estate for children any longer than whilst he believes them to be his own.