“In character, in manner, in style, in all the things, the supreme excellence is simplicity”

“For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.”

“Think not, because no man seesSuch things will remain unseen”

“Thus it is our daughters leave us, Those we love, and those who love us! Just when they have learned to help us, When we are old and lean upon them, Comes a youth with flaunting feathers, With his flute of reeds, a stranger Wanders piping through the village, Beckons to the fairest maiden, And she follows where he leads her, Leaving all things for the stranger!”

“Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.”

“The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.”

“Ye are better than all the balladsThat ever were sung or said;For ye are living poems,And all the rest are dead.”