The art required for developing the position in imagination was not of a complicated kind, and yet it is one of the rarest of gifts.
"Daniel Defoe"
William Minto
The very fact that these books are guides to us and invaluable, and that we readily acquire the habit of taking them about with us and consulting them at frequent intervals, comes between us and that rarest and most exquisite enjoyment to be experienced amidst novel scenes.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
In a little over a hundred years it has reduced smallpox from the commonest and most fatal of all diseases to one of the rarest.
"A Handbook of Health"
Woods Hutchinson