This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication. – Logan Pearsall Smith
Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways – water in general, water sounds – theres music in water. Brooks babbling, fountains splashing. Weirs, waterfalls tumbling, gushing. – Julie Andrews
In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time – the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car. – John Moody