" By Latin and English Poetry, I was born and bred in an oratorio of praises of nature, flowers, birds and mountains, sun and moon..."

"The wise skeptic wishes to have a near view of the best game and the chief players; what is best in the planet; art and nature..."

"Veillez donc à ne lire aucun livre médiocre. Évitez les élucubrations de la presse sur les bagatelles du jour."

"Je trouve les hommes victimes victimes de l’illusion à tous les âges de la vie."

"As a school-boy he was quiet and retiring, reading a great deal, but not paying much attention to his lessons."

"In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child."