“It does seem pleasant to be quiet, and not have company manners on all the time. Home is a nice place, though it isn't splendid.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women ... See MoreSee Less

“We love the night and its quiet; and there is no night that we love so well as that on which the moon is coffined in clouds.”
― Fitz-James O'Brien ... See MoreSee Less

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov ... See MoreSee Less

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso ... See MoreSee Less

"Look at that castle which overhangs yon precipice; and that also on the island, almost concealed amongst the foliage of those lovely trees; and now that group of labourers coming from among their vines; and that village half hid in the recess of the mountain."
- Frankenstein, Mary Shelley ... See MoreSee Less

"It was on a dark evening, in a narrow side-street near one of the big railway stations."
- Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell ... See MoreSee Less

"Every man has some peculiar train of thought which he falls back upon when he is alone. This, to a great degree, moulds the man."
- Dugald Stewart ... See MoreSee Less

“My father says that there is only one perfect view — the view of the sky straight over our heads, and that all these views on earth are but bungled copies of it.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View ... See MoreSee Less

“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke ... See MoreSee Less

"From their platform a stair descended into the house, and the children and the Wizard explored it after lighting a lantern to show them the way."
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum ... See MoreSee Less

"To sleep, perchance to dream..."
- Hamlet, William Shakespeare ... See MoreSee Less

"Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances."
- Victor Hugo, Les Misérables ... See MoreSee Less

"The steps grew louder, and through the fog, as through a curtain, there stepped the man whom we were awaiting."
- The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle ... See MoreSee Less

"It's been a long, cold, lonely winter"
- Here Comes The Sun, The Beatles ... See MoreSee Less

"The light was then so bright that it dazzled their eyes, and they covered their faces with their hands to escape being blinded."
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum ... See MoreSee Less