"That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much."

"You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving."

"Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity."

"I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral."

"Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments."

"Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness."

"Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised."

"Do not hurry what nature takes seasons to unfold. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."