"The gray-eyed morn smiles on the frowning..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it.”

“No deeper wrinkles yet? Hath sorrow struck So many blows upon this face of mine And made no deeper wounds?”

“To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master And cried, 'All hail!' when as he meant all harm.”

“It requires enormous presence of mind or rather quickness of wit, when opening your eyes to seize hold as it were of everything in the room at exactly the same place where you had let it go on the previous evening. That is why the moment of waking up was the riskiest moment of the day. Once that was well over without deflecting you from your orbit, you could take heart of grace for the rest of the day.”

“Morning brings back the heroic ages.”

“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”

“Let us guard against saying that there are laws in nature. There are merely necessities: there is no one who commands, no one whoobeys, no one who transgresses. Once you understand that there are no purposes, then you also understand that nothing is accidental: for it is only in a world of purposes that the word "accident" makes sense.”

“To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest.”

“The sea-shore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate this world. It is even a trivial place. The waves forever rolling to the land are too far-travelled and untamable to be familiar. Creeping along the endless beach amid the sun-squall and the foam, it occurs to us that we, too, are the product of sea-slime.”