One more touch of the bow, smell of the virginal Green - one more, and my bosom Feels new life with an ecstasy.

When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.

Children are certainly too good to be true.

One more touch of the bow, smell of the virginal Green - one more, and my bosom Feels new life with an ecstasy.

The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization.

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

I love this quote uttered by the character Widget in The Night Circus. He credits it to Herr Thiessen but knows it is a literary quote by the another author. "Wine is bottled poetry