There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death..

The sense of smell is the hair-trigger of memory..

Take love easy, as the leaves grow on the trees..

To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after resignation to drowsy and stiffening a….

The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings..

It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes..

I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted..

Folks will say anything, and next time round they'll believe it..

Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will..

The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage..

The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try.

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know..

It is not true that women cannot keep secrets. Where they love, they can be trusted to death and beyond, against all sense and reason. It is their we….

To plant a garden is the chief of the arts of peace..

...the floss-silk manes tossed up like the crest of a breaking wave....Light ran and glittered on them. They were obedient...you would have sworn...….

You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects..

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.

It seems to me you can be awfully happy in this life if you stand aside and watch and mind your own business, and let other people do as they like ab….

But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it..

It does not do to neglect the gods of a place, whoever they may be. In the end, they are all one..

I sometimes think it's a mistake to have been happy when one was a child. One should always want to go on, not back..