There is too much doing - too little being! When we begin to get strenuous, life begins to grow intolerable.

Time, designing slowly, swiftly; Time, destroying slowly, swiftly; Time holding, possessing the earth in its tender indifference.

Ah, life, life, how madly, how cruelly it raced along your pulses!

There's precious little comes of telling people what they don't want to hear.

a man can break God's laws and be forgiven. That's what they teach us. But when he breaks Nature's laws, there's no forgiveness - and there's no escape. Sooner or later he pays the penalty, or his children pay it - or his children's children. It doesn't matter much. It must be paid.

But one had to go back to the beginning of things, always. Trace the thread of life - find the knot - untangle it.

A false vision was better than none.