Effective magic is transcendent nature.
It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow.
Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.