There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.

The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value.

Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.

The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil.

He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

I've had it with you and your emotional constipation!

after a man passes 60 , his mischief is mainly in his head