It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. – Baltasar Gracian
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art. – Baltasar Gracian
It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. – Baltasar Gracian
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art. – Baltasar Gracian
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself. – Baltasar Gracian
In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs as effectually as it obliterates. I go into the woods, and know all that has happened. I cross the fields, and if only a mouse has visited his neighbor, the fact is chronicled. – John Burroughs, “The Snow-Walkers,” 1866