Then climate is a great impediment to idle persons; we often resolve to give up the care of the weather, but still we regard the clouds and the rain.

Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast

A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us.

Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart's desire.

At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish. The knapsack of custom falls off his back with the first step he makes into these precincts. Here is sanctity which shames our religions, and reality which discredits our heroes. Here we find Nature to be the circumstance which dwarfs every other circumstance, and judges like a god all men that come to her.

Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.