"The unnatural, that too is natural...." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“How fair doth NatureAppear again!How bright the sunbeams!How smiles the plain!The flow'rs are burstingFrom ev'ry bough,And thousand voicesEach bush yields now.And joy and gladnessFill ev'ry breast!Oh earth!-oh sunlight!Oh rapture blest!Oh love! oh loved one!”

“Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.”

“A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.”

“It must be confessed that horses at present work too exclusively for men, rarely men for horses; and the brute degenerates in man's society.”

“The river where you set your foot just now is gone-those waters give way to this, now this.”

“There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of head or hands. Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in reverie, amidst the pines and hickories and sumachs, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the birds sang around. I grew in those seasons like corn in the night, and they were far better than any work of the hands would have been. They were not time subtracted from my life, but so much over and above my usual allowance.”

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

“it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance”

“Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.”