The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try
It does not do to neglect the gods of a place, whoever they may be. In the end, they are all one.
To plant a garden is the chief of the arts of peace.
There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.
I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted.
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.