Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity. [p.277]

Meditation on the chance which led to the meeting of my mother and father is even more salutary than meditation on death. [p.277]

The most important part of education - to teach the meaning of to know (in the scientific sense).

To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue). [p.…

Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

Fair pledges of a fruitful tree, Why do ye fall so fast? Your date is not so past But you may stay yet here awhile To blush and gently smile, And go at last.

Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So da…