"Good temper is an estate for life."
- William Hazlitt (English author, essayist, and critic; b. 1778 - d. 1830)

"Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level."
- A. Alvarez (English author, b. 1929)

"Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep."
- William Shakespeare
(English author, poet, and and playwright; b. 1564 - d. 1616)
from King Henry VI, Part II.

Quotations: Water, Land, Agriculture, Disposition, Heart, Growth, Literature, Love, Virtue, Duty, Natural Resources

"There is in every human heart,
Some not completely barren part,
Where seeds of truth and love might grow,
And flowers of generous virtue flow;
To plant, to watch, to water there,
This be our duty, be our care.
-from Matins and Vespers: With Hymns and Occasional Devotional Pieces (1827)

- Sir John Bowring (English author, poet, political economist, and 4th governor of Hong Kong; b. 1792 - d. 1872)