Thomas Powell

“I have never yet known a man admit that he was either rich or asleep: perhaps the poor man and the wakeful man have some great moral advantage.”
― Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander

“November is, for many reasons, the month for the axe. It is warm enough to grind an axe without freezing, but cold enough to fell a tree in comfort.”
― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There

“Just as cookies are a terrible nutritional center for your diet, so emotions make a terrible central priority for your life.”
― J. Alasdair Groves, Untangling Emotions: "God's Gift of Emotions"

“Smell is of all senses by far the most evocative: perhaps because we have no vocabulary for it – nothing but a few poverty-stricken approximations to describe the whole vast complexity of odour – and therefore the scent, unnamed and unnamable, remains pure of association; it cannot be called upon again and again, and blunted, by the use of a word; and so it strikes afresh every time, bringing with it all the circumstances of its first perception.”
― Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain