I went to Maui to stay a week and remained five. I never spent so pleasant a month before, or bade any place goodbye so regretfully. I have not once thought of business, or care or human toil or trouble or sorrow or weariness, and the memory of it will remain with me always. - Mark Twain
Out in the fjord I dragged myself up at once, wet with fever and exhaustion, and gazed landwards, and bade farewell for the present to the town – to Christiania, where the windows gleamed so brightly in all the homes. - Knut Hamsun
The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more. - Mary Shelley
Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back,Guiltie of dust and sin. - George Herbert