Grace is the absence of every thing that indicates pain or difficulty, or hesitation or incongruity. - William Hazlitt

The world has been doing little else but playing at make-believe all its lifetime.

One of the pleasantest things in the world is going a journey; but I like to go by myself. I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. I am then never less lone than when alone...I cannot see the wit of walking and talking at the same time. When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country...I like solitude, when I give myself up to it, for the sake of solitude...

Words are the only things that last forever; they are more durable than the eternal hills