“Wisdom comes with winters”

“With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.”

“And when wind and winter hardenAll the loveless land,It will whisper of the garden,You will understand.”

“He is some brainless, beautiful creature, who should always be here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and always here in the summer when we want something to chill our intelligence.”

“Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.”

“They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.”

“Out of the unreal shadows of the night comes back the real life that we had known”