“All great and precious things are lonely.”
“That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely.”
“The warlike days are over. Blood is too precious a thing in these days of dishonorable peace; and the glories of the great races are as a tale that is told.”
“Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.”
“It was a lone voice in the middle of the ocean, but it was heard at great depth and great distance.”
“A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.”