Life and Existence

The value of life lies not in the length of days but in the use you make of them; he has lived for a long time who has little lived. Whether you have lived enough depends not on the number of your years but on your will.

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.

I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but caring little for it, and even less about the imperfections of my garden.

I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but caring little for it, and even less about the imperfections of my garden.

One should always have one’s boots on, and be ready to leave.

on being asked what she wore in bed: Chanel No. 5.

when asked if she really had nothing on in a calendar photograph:

One dies only once, and it’s for such a long time!

What does he [God] then but reveal Himself to his servants, and as his manner is, first to his Englishmen?

Methought I saw my late espousèd saint

They also serve who only stand and wait.

When I consider how my light is spent,

Time the subtle thief of youth.

Time the subtle thief of youth.

Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail.

Just are the ways of God,

The first and wisest of them all professed

The childhood shows the man,

The childhood shows the man,

He who seeking asses found a kingdom.

The world was all before them, where to choose

But on occasion’s forelock watchful wait.

O fairest of creation, last and best

Flesh of flesh,