» Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.
» Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
» Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
» When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
» Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
» It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
» Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
» The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
» Wine is bottled poetry.
» Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.