Famous quotes containing the words yield and/or surface:
“Thus did he yield me in the shady night
A wondrous and instructive light,
Which taught me that under our feet there is,
As oer our heads, a place of bliss.”
—Thomas Traherne (16361674)
“White Pond and Walden are great crystals on the surface of the earth, Lakes of Light.... They are too pure to have a market value; they contain no muck. How much more beautiful than our lives, how much more transparent than our characters are they! We never learned meanness of them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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