“Beauty should be shared for it enhances our joys.To explore its mystery is to venture towards the sublime.”
“You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.”
“Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you, smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering, "Come and find out".”
“We use books like mirrors, gazing into them only to discover ourselves.”
“Our living room had a clock in it that used to clear its throat before striking the hours. He is that harrumphing.”
“Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.”