Acquaintance Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine That lights the pathway but one step ahead Across a void of mystery and dread.

— George Santayana

A grub in filth is dirty, but it changes into a cicada and sips dew in the autumn breeze. Rotting plants have no luster,…

— Zicheng Hong

“Beneath that arch of unmoved and eternal lights: some, so remote from this little earth that the learned tell us it is doubtful whether…

— Charles Dickens

“The subject dropped, and we sat on in the dusk that was rapidly deepening into night. The door into the hall was open at…

— E.F. Benson

Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.

— Ellis Peters

Don't think about what you've left behind. If what one finds is made of pure matter, it will never spoil. And one can always…

— Paulo Coelho

Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only…

— Augustus William Hare

...the proliferation of luminous fungi or iridescent crystals in deep caves where the torchlessly improvident hero needs to see is one of the most…

— Terry Pratchett

Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods.

— John Muir

Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“The unchecked growth of many summers, rising and declining, has lessened the penetration of the light in a way one rarely sees in farmland…

— J.A. Baker

Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in…

— Alexander MacLaren