The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., “Over the Teacups,” 1891
I… wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain. – James Agate
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. – Henry David Thoreau
Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures – youve just got to be sure that its a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed. – Malcolm Mclaren