The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity. - Robertson Davies
To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. - Jane Austen
The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul. - Johann Sebastian Bach
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. - William Penn
Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted, If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning Back to their springs, like the rain shall fill them full of refreshment; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow