Blood and tears are going to be our lot, whether we like them or not. Our blood and tears will flow; maybe the parched soil of India needs them so th….

I'm not a queen of anything, you know..

I place flowers in the very first rank of simple pleasures; and I have no very good opinion of the hard worldly people who take no delight in them..

There is usually no dreamer so unworldly as the anthologist. He wanders in a vast garden, lost in wonder, unable to decide often between flowers of e….

I know that we live after death and again and again, not in the memory of our children, or as a mulch for trees and flowers, however poetic that may ….

In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate..

I never said to myself, "I'm going to be the greatest." I just wanted to do my own thing..

You work here [on the farm] simply without philosophizing; sometimes the work is hard and crowded with pettiness. But at times you feel a surge of co….

The less it is possible that something can be, the more it must be..

I, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance. But a deeper beauty lies concealed within..

We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our hearts we know th….

Napoleon is dead - but Beethoven lives..

Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but as much daily sol….

You just become, like a flower becomes a fruit. It's all built in, within you. Allow it to work out..

With God, it's possible to be content wherever we are, with whatever we have..

Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps..

You're only as good as you are now - not as good as you were before..

Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him..

I'm happy to be where I am and how everything has turned out..

The death-change comes. Death is another life. We bow our heads At going out, we think, and enter straight Another golden chamber of the king's Large….

I do like to be surprised..