The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say that children must learn through the same process that they learned by. We insist upon forced mental feeding and our lessons

Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.

My dearest life, I know you are not mine forever; but do love me even if it’s for this moment. After that I shall vanish into the forest where you cast me, I won’t ask anyone for anything again. Give me something that can last me till I die.

Death is turning out the lamp because the dawn has appeared.

The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment's hesitation to crush beauty and life.

Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

The hours trip rapidly away, hiding their dreams in their skirts.