“This love of nature is divinely given to keep alive, even in the most toiling and world-worn existence, something of the imaginative and the apart.”

Seeing nature as a refuge for imagination amid ordinary labour · Essay, Female Portrait Gallery, No. I

• Consolation
• Imagination
• Nature

“Perhaps it is a benevolent provision of Nature that we remember more what touches than what pains us.”

Reflecting on memory's tendency to preserve tenderness over pain · Essay, A Calendar of the London Seasons

• Consolation
• Memory
• Nature