Famous quotes containing the words silk and/or spectre:
“A single strand of silk does not make a thread, nor a single tree a forest.”
—Chinese proverb.
“The acorn’s not yet
Fallen from the tree
That’s to grow the wood,
That’s to make the cradle,
That’s to rock the bairn,
That’s to grow a man,
That’s to lay me.”
—Unknown. The Cauld Lad of Hilton or, The Wandering Spectre (l. 2–8)