If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.

Nature can be trusted to work her own miracle in the heart of any man whose daily task keeps him alone among her sights, sounds and silences.

The world is full of happy people but no one ever hears of them. You have to fight and make a scandal to get in the papers. No one knows about all the happy people.

it takes the very wisest person there is to know when to talk, and when to keep still.

What was money that it should make such dreadful things of men and women?

The seasons run with swift feet.

I don't so much mind the falling, but I do seem to select the hardest spots to light on.