All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.

Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues.

Let us be silent — so we may hear the whisper of the gods.

Nature turns all malfaisance to good.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

I wish to speak with all respect of persons, but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake, and preserve the due decorum. They melt so fast into each other, that they are like grass and trees, and it needs an effort to treat them as individuals.

Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . . . The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in beholders.