Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden.

Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.

To come to know your enemy, first you must become his friend, and once you become his friend, all his defences come down. Then you can choose the most fitting method for his demise.

There are seven emotions: joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate, and if a man does not give way to these he can be called patient.

Remember, slow and steady wins the race.

Little Bird if you do not sing for me, I will wait for you

When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root of all quietness and assurance forever.

Give the peasants neither life nor death.

After victory, tighten the cords of your helmet.

Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.

Patience is the key to any battle.

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.

We sat bathed in luscious darkness, Casco Bay's thousand islands spread out before us like a diamond quilt. 'I don't get enough of this, ' she said.

The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men.

It is my entire visual art practice: I eat, sleep, think, write about and do drawing.

For a while, I thought of myself as an atheist until I realized it was a belief, too. It's a shame everything has to have a label.

The moon twangs its silver strings; The river swoons into town; The wind beds down in the pines, Covers itself with stars.

Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.

Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.

The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.