Famous quotes containing the words subtle and/or mind:
“I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. It is not indifferent to us which way we walk.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“To write anything tolerable, the mind must be in a natural, proper disposition; provocatives, in that case, as well as in another, will only produce miserable, abortive performances.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)