Men who watch, and say little, very often are much wiser than the men they serve.
These are your beautiful days, Julia Beckett," he promised softly.
When I meet a wind I cannot fight , I can do naught but set my sails to let it take me where it will.
Ever try to hold a butterfly? It can't be done. You damage them," he said. 'As gentle as you try to be, you take the powder from their wings and they won't ever fly the same. It's kinder to let them go.
Whatever time we have," he said, "it will be time enough.
Tis action moves the world....[in] the game of chess, mind that: ye cannot leave your men to stand unmoving on the board and hope to win. A soldier must first step upon the battlefield if does mean to cross it.