"Degraded bird, I give you back your eyes forever, ascend now whither you are tossed; Forsake this wrist, forsake this rhyme; Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, But climb."

"But you were something more than young and sweet And fair, - and the long year remembers you."

"The undercurrent of my every thought: To seek you, find you, have you for my own."

"Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does."

"Take up the song; forget the epitaph."

"I saw and heard, and knew at last The How and Why of all things, past, and present, and forevermore."

"Tea was sucha comfort."

"... but the rain Is full of ghosts tonight"

"I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe."

"When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable."

"Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down."

"Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver, and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings."

"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear."

"Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part."

"Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years."

"It is a dreadful truth, but it is a truth that cannot be concealed; in ability, in dexterity, in the distinctness of their views, the Jacobins are our superiors."

"The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please; we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations which may be soon turned into complaints."

"Superstition is the religion of feeble minds."

"A representative owes not just his industry but his judgement"

"All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing."

"I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases."

"Poetry and art are the breath of life to her."

"Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing."

"To be an ideal guest, stay at home."