“The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.”

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.

The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.

Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.

I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

I will bring you flowers from the mountains, bluebells, dark hazels, and rustic baskets of kisses. I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.

Kid, you’ll move mountains.

Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.

It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.

There is no mountain I can’t climb. There’s no tower too high. No plane that I can’t learn how to fly.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.