“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is a rapture on the lonely shore.” — Lord Byron · Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV, 1818
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.” — Albert Einstein · What I Believe, 1930
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson · Letter to his daughter, 1865
“One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.” — Henry David Thoreau · Journal
“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.” — John Lubbock · The Use of Life, 1894