There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots.
The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.
Don't use tap water to make your colloidal silver. Use pure distilled water only. And don't take very large dosages or strong concentrations for long periods of time.
I collect axioms, paradoxes, maxims, teaching stories, proverbs, and aphorisms of all sorts, because I love to see complex ideas distilled into a few words.
A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
I have a slightly contrarian streak as a writer, and one of the things I was interested in was how distilled could I make a life, and how I could cross what is kind of trivialized as a domestic novel with a novel of ideas, a philosophical novel.