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Sitting down on a block of granite, it was delightful to watch the various insects and birds as they flew past.

This west coast makes me remember with pleasure the free, unbounded plains of Patagonia; yet, with the true spirit of contradiction, I cannot forget how sublime is the silence of the forest.

A thing was worth buying then, when we felt the money that we paid for it.

Language is our largest common medium, and leads on into literature, which is but preserved speech.

The more you are and the more you do, the richer your life, the greater your joy.

An actor, in order to earn approval, is not bound to perform the play from beginning to end; let him only satisfy the audience in whatever act he appears.

This ripeness is so delightful to me, that, as I approach nearer to death, I seem as it were to be sighting land, and to be coming to port at last after a long voyage.

a man who is always living in the midst of these studies and labours does not perceive when old age creeps upon him

if it has in store any of what I may call the food of study and philosophy, nothing can be pleasanter than an old age of leisure

You’ll never see a U-haul behind a hearse.

All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse; not studied as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm.

One may be happy to a good degree, I think, in a faithful friend, a moderate fortune, and a retired life; further than this I know nothing to wish; but if there be anything beyond it, I wish it you.

a real kindness is so far beyond all compliment, that it never appears more than when there is least of t'other mingled with it

we never could differ about the worth and comfort of domestic affection

Husband, lover, nurse--not one of these, has Robert been to me, but all three together.

Real wealth consists in things of utility and beauty, in things that help to create strong, beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to live in.

The forest is an eternal mediator between winds and gravity in their never-ending struggle for the possession of the waters.

Do not admire your clothes, and then you will not be angry with the thief.

Have you anything better or greater to see than the sun, the moon, the stars, the whole earth, the sea?

Keep by every means what is your own; do not desire what belongs to others.

That was all of tangible things; but in memories we were rich. We had pierced the veneer of outside things.

A President is neither prince nor pope, and I don't seek a window on men's souls.

We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent, a citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood and town better than he found it.

We find the fullness of life not only in options, but in commitments.

The highest result of education is tolerance.