To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.