that which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.

The birds looked upon me as nothing but a man, quite a trifling creature without wings-and they would have nothing to do with me. Were it not so I would build a small cabin for myself among their crowd of nests and pass my days counting the sea waves.

Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones -- the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically.

to tyrannize for the country is to tyrannize over the country

From the grasses in the field to the stars in the sky, each one is doing just that; and there is such profound peace and surpassing beauty in nature because none of these tries forcibly to transgress its limitations.

When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away.

If it is necessary to die in order to live like men, what harm in dying?