"Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth."

"We are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and firing of the idea of the beautiful into us."

"To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face?"

"If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I am surprised to find how soon I have forgotten them."

"I love my friends, but I do not want to absorb them."