“Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them”
“Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them”
“One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star”
“What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!”
“All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child”
“All of nature is a battlefield”
“And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow”
“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass”