Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.

Perhaps loneliness had nothing to do with place or circumstance; perhaps it was in you; yourself. Perhaps, wherever you were, you took your little circle of loneliness with you.

The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.

I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted.

But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.

I can say 'reduce your stress level' until I'm blue in the face.

the difficult art I was attempting had, indeed a powerful fascination, before which the past faded, the future receded, and the whole of experience narrowed down to this stretch of glancing, glimmering water, and the fly I was trying to cast across it.