What is the use trying to describe the flowing of a river at any one moment, and then at the next moment, and then at the next, and the next, and the next? You wear out. You say: There is a great river, and it flows through this land, and we have named it History.

Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place.

Hope is a slow business.

To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.

Excess is excrement, ... Excrement retained in the body is a poison.

Prose writers are interested mostly in life and commas.

The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel.