“A mighty pain to love it is,And 't is a pain that pain to miss;But of all pains, the greatest painIt is to love, but love in vain.”

“May I a small house and large garden have;And a few friends,And many books, both true.”

“Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.”

“The world's a scene of changes and to be constant in nature is inconstancy.”

“This only grant me that my means may lie too low for envy for contempt too high.”

“Acquaintance I would have but when it depends not on the number but the choice of friends.”

“The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.”

“At the age of 45, most days in Tucson were spent feeling like I was on the summit of Mauna Kea, as I was exhibiting debilitating health symptoms that corresponded to what I saw at very high altitud...”

“The hour is only long thus, if you've waited.”

“Man has no individual i. But there are, instead, hundreds and thousands of separate small "i"s, very often entirely unknown to one another, never coming into contact, or, on the contrary, hostile t...”

“Let the statues crumble. You have always been the place.”

“Why are you here?Where am I?You have come to this place to lie in the ground?The derision in the question was clear.I have come to this place to find peace.And what is peace?Laughter in the recesse...”

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

“All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings theres too much corruption in the world ”

“Its only when youre at the bottom of the ladder that you ascend.”