In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.

The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.

How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes.

All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration; out there in history we can see its fatal strength.

The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.

We know more from nature than we can at will communicate.

Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern, which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind, and behold, all the mats and rubbish which had littered his garret become precious. Every trivial fact in his private biography becomes an illustration of this new principle, revisits the day, and delights all men by its piquancy and new charm.