The greatest fault of the day is the absence of stillness.
One of the most perfect and unfailing joys of life is planting. It is the creative joy felt by God.
Peace is the wait of the patient soul.
And then came a time when I could no longer say 'We,' and I found myself in a lonesome land where no one remembered that I had ever been young, or called me by my given name.
perpetuity in a home is a blanket for the cold years that come with age.
Blessed be those souls who are glad! They are a salve for sorrow and fatigue. A sun in days of darkness, a joy in sorrow, a ray of heaven shining through the uncertainness of earth.
If the physical perfection of childhood could last, what a possesssion it would be for humanity!
If you are an eighteen or nineteen-year-old with little education, as is often the case, and you're put in charge of many, many people on the other end of the world, you have absolute power and you're not prepared for it.
Those who don't know how to suffer are the worst off. There are times when the only correct thing we can do is to bear out troubles until a better day.
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton
And it is a great thing to die in your own bed, though it is better still to die in your boots.