Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.

When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.

All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.

What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show. It is, with all its might and main, what it is, and makes one and the same impression and effect at all times. All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle's, and of a rabbit, rabbit's. But a man is broken and dissipated by the giddiness of his will; he does not throw himself into his judgments; his genius leads him one way but 't is likely his trade or politics in quite another.

If the race is good, so is the place.

Eyes...They speak all languages.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.