The best thing about being too late is that there's no more need to hurry.

Sooner or later, I'll be punctual.

Until I met you, I thought the world had some rational basis.

I can only do one thing at a time, but I can avoid doing many things simultaneously.

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut The portals of our earthly destinies; We walk through blindfold, and the noiseless doors…

The appeal to heaven breaks off. The petals begin to fall, in self-forgiveness. It is a flower. On this mountainside it is dying.