The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.

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

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

It seems to me you can be awfully happy in this life if you stand aside and watch and mind your own business, and let other people do as they like about damaging themselves and one another. You go on kidding yourself that you're impartial and tolerant and all that, then all of a sudden you realize you're dead, and you've never been alive at all.

To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after resignation to drowsy and stiffening age; to remember what once you thought life could hold, after telling over with muddied and calculating fingers what it has offered; this is music, made after long silence. The soul flexes its wings, and, clumsy as any fledgling, tries the air again

Well, what was luck for if it was never to be tempted?

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