Take love easy, as the leaves grow on the trees.

To plant a garden is the chief of the arts of peace.

I sometimes think it's a mistake to have been happy when one was a child. One should always want to go on, not back.

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark

Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have more.

Have you ever thought, when something dreadful happens, 'a moment ago things were not like this; let it be then, not now, anything but now'? And you try and try to remake then, but you know you can't. So you try to hold the moment quite still and not let it move on and show itself.

There are such people, unfortunates who have to be angry before they can feel alive. I had sometimes wondered if it were some old relic of pagan superstition, the fear of risking the jealousy and anger of the gods, that made such people afraid of even small happinesses. Or perhaps it was only that tragedy is more self-important than laughter.