A sea setting us upon the ice has brought us close to danger.

I think this land may bee profitable to those that will adventure it.

I used all diligence to arrive at London and therefore I now gave my crew a certificate under my hand, of my free and willing return, without persuasion or force by any one or more of them.

Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem.... it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description.

There are few places in England where you can get so much wildness and desolation of sea and sandhills, wood, green marsh and grey saltings as at Wells in Norfolk.

We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is as if we didn't know and didn't believe.

There are many Green Dragons in this world of wayside inns, even as there are many White Harts, Red Lions, Silent Women and other incredible things.

Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.

The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence.

Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.

Of all the people I have ever known you are the only one I don't know.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

It’s the great surprise of my life that I ended up loving [my father] so much.

We largely become what we have observed and respected.

John Andrew Holmes, “No exercise is better for the human heart than reaching down and lifting another up.

Family is the only real wealth.

Better that the whole world should turn against you... than you should consent to turn against what is true within you.

She [Mandy Ingber] brought yoga into my life. It completely changed my life . . . It's one of the most fun workouts I've ever had . . . So have fun and work hard because it will totally pay off.

You can't really live in the past because the present is always present.

The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.

Come, then, let us go forward together with our united strength - and win a better future for generations to come.