"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea,..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions, as, of the snake, the stag, and the elephant, but colors also; as the green grass.”

“The case wouldn't be overweight if you didn't have so many shoes. How many do you really need? This pair, for example, I swear you never even wore them.”

“The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.”

“The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes”

“It is nature that is driving us towards perfection, and eventually she will bring everyone there.”

“This valley is the only place that comes up to the brag about it, and exceeds it.”

“I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in their wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. ... All that interests in any character [is this]: has he (or she) the money to marry with? ... Suicide is more respectable.”

“You must first put something into your life before you can get something out of it.”

“And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!”