“Men go back to the mountains,
as they go back to sailing ships at sea,
because in the mountains and on the sea
they must face up.”
by Henry David Thoreau

“There are only two mistakes one can make 
along the road to truth;
not going all the way and not starting.”
by Buddha

“But he that dares not grasp the thorn
should never crave the rose.”
by Anne Brontë

“To live is so startling
it leaves little time for anything else.”
by Emily Dickinson

“Those true eyes too pure and too honest in aught to disguise the sweet soul shining through them.”
by Owen Meredith

“And therefore never send to know
for whom the bell tolls;
it tolls for thee.”
 by John Donne

“The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.”

by Oscar Wilde

“And whether this happiness lasted a hundred seconds or ten minutes, it was so far removed from time that it resembled every other genuine happiness as completely as one fluttering blue lycaenid butterfly resembles another.”

by Herman Hesse

“The light that never was, on sea or land,
The consecration, and the Poet’s dream…”

by William Wordsworth