Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.

We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.

Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.

Youth eats all the sugared fancy cakes and regards them as its daily bread. But there'll come a time when you'll start asking just for a crust.

Tempered, gradual animation, the methodical restrain of sensations and energies, the equilibrium of sickness and health in each creature--this is nature's essence, its immutable law, this is what it's based on and what it adheres to.

A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most vital of creatures?

I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.