It does not do to neglect the gods of a place, whoever they may be. In the end, they are all one.

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

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 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.

The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try

Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.

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