"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is..." - Quote by Lao Tzu

“A good person is the bad person's teacher. A bad person is the good person's task.”

“Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.”

“Nature doesn't make long speeches.”

“You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak.”

“Reviewing the day's lessons. Isn't it joyful? Friends come from far. Isn't it delightful? One has never been angry at other's misunderstanding. Isn't he a respectable man?”

“Infinite altruism is the basis of peace and happiness. If you want altruism, you must control hate and you must practice patience. The main teachers of patience are our enemies.”

“There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth.”

“She tapped on the window with her embossed hairbrush. They were too far off to hear. The drone of the trees was in their ears; the chirp of birds; other incidents of garden life, inaudible, invisible to her in the bedroom, absorbed them. Isolated on a green island, hedged about with snowdrops, laid with a counterpane of puckered silk, the innocent island floated under her window. Only George lagged behind.”

“The most alive is the wildest.”