Was there nought better than to enjoy? No feat which, done, would make time break, And let us pent-up creatures through Into eternity, our due? No fo….
How silent, how spacious, what room for all, yet without place to insert an atom--in graceful succession, in equal fullness, in balanced beauty, the ….
If you are killing time, it's not murder. It's suicide..
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?.
I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out..
I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every ….
Leisure is the time for doing something useful..
I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devote….
The busy have no time for tears..
The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist..
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do..
Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is? The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books….
Decades have a delusive edge to them. They are not, of course, really periods at all, except as any other ten years may be. But we, looking at them, ….
Having kids has been a fantastic thing for me. It's meant that I'm a little more balanced. In my twenties I worked massively, hardly took vacation at….
Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough..
If the children already born each have only two children themselves ... in twenty-seven to thirty-five years the population of the world will double..
Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but let them feel at the same time the steadiness of your just resentment for there is….
It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead..
A bed or a chair will trick you if you stay still on them long at a time. They will draw out your strength and leave you weak as water..
Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. P….
For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!.