Closed Reins

Famous quotes containing the words closed and/or reins:

“No domain of nature is quite closed to man at all times.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“I would go fifty miles on foot, for I have not a horse worth riding on, to kiss the hand of that man whose generous heart will give up the reins of his imagination into his author’s hands,—be pleased he knows not why, and cares not wherefore.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)