“Seek on high bare trailsSky-reflecting violets...Mountain-top jewels”

“The devil takes us to the top of an exceeding high mountain and makes us dizzy; but God lets us look at the mountain.”

“The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.”

“The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.”

“Will you just stand on the foot of a high mountain and look at it with admiration or climb the top and be the admired itself? Remember that anybody can be an admirer; but the difficult thing is to be the admired one!”

“The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a fine fringe on their edges, with here and there a blue mountain, like amethyst jewels set around some jewel of the first water, - so anterior, so superior, to all the changes that are to take place on their shores, even now civil and refined, and fair as they can ever be.”