Without music, life would be a blank to me.

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.

Ever since her being turned into a Churchill, she has out-Churchill'd them all in high and mighty claims.

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

You give me fresh life and vigour. Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains? Oh! what hours of transport we shall spend! And when we do return, it shall not be like other travelers, without being able to give one accurate idea of any thing. We will know where we have gone – we will recollect what we have seen. Lakes, mountains, and rivers shall not be jumbled together in our imaginations; nor when we attempt to describe any particular scene, will we begin quarrelling about its relative situation. Let our first effusions be less insupportable than those of the generality of travelers.