"Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves" — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children

Source: Letters of John Keats (1817-1820)

The poetry of the earth is never dead

Source: On the Grasshopper and Cricket (1816)

Lawyer: One skilled in circumvention of the law

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

Four seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the mind of man

Source: The Human Seasons (1818)

God made the country, and man made the town.

Source: The Task (1785)

Love is the one bond of the universe, the heart of God, the life of his children: if animals can be loved, they are loveable; if they can love, they are yet more plainly loveable: love is eternal; how then should its object perish?

Source: The Hope of the Gospel (1871)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote

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