Live, and be happy, and make others so. - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose- a point on which the soul can focus its intellectual eye

Could I behold this and live? Alas! Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

The sound of the river raging among the rocks, and the dashing of the waterfalls around, spoke of a power mighty as Omnipotence – and I ceased to fear or to bend before any being less almighty than that which had created and ruled the elements, here displayed in their most terrific guise.