“Fortune's fool! How we humans lie upon beauty like lizards upon a sun-baked rock.”

“The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely.”

“The shadows of leaves fall upon their arms, as they spread the branches apart, but their shoulders are in the sun. The skin of their arms is like a blue mist, but their shoulders are white and glowing, as if the light fell not from above, but rose from under their skin. We watch the leaf which has fallen upon their shoulder and it lies at the curve of their neck, and a drop of dew glistens upon it like a jewel.”

“Romance is a lie that gives people an excuse to act like fools and later blame it on the one whom they had bestowed their supposed love upon.”

“It had all seemed as inevitable as sunset. Instead it was the beauty of the sun glinting upon the scythe.”

“How often do we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! Wego to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And when we learn thatthe storms of life have not driven us upon the rocks but into thedesired heaven.”