“Your thoughts, which have hitherto been obscured by boyish things, become refined; your sight opens and admits wider sights and more gentle objects.”

Describing maturity as an expansion of perception and sympathy · Autobiographical fragment, Chapter III (published posthumously, 1877)

• Beauty
• Childhood
• Nature

“What teacher has ever endeavored to instil into his pupils the value of weeds or grasses, of animal or vegetable nature... the wonders of space, or of the seasons; of night, of silence?”

Calling for education to include wonder, observation and silence · Autobiographical fragment, Chapter III (published posthumously, 1877)

• Education
• Nature

“She it was who first taught me to know him and to love him, and led eventually to my wondering admiration for the greatest genius that the world has ever produced.”

Remembering the person who awakened his lifelong love of Shakespeare · Autobiographical fragment, Chapter II, on Shakespeare (published posthumously, 1877)

• Art
• Childhood
• Memory