It seems to be a law of nature inflexible and inexorable that those who will not risk cannot win.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits by which we are nurtured and live.

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

Those little nimble musicians of the air that warble forth their curious ditties with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

The sun with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good bad and indifferent e.g. music is good to the melancholy bad to those who mourn and neither good nor bad to the deaf.