"The innocent and the beautiful have no..." - Quote by William Butler Yeats

“Endure what life God gives and ask no longer span;Cease to remember the delights of youth, travel-wearied aged man;Delight becomes death-longing if all longing else be vain.”

“My wretched dragon is perplexed.”

“When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.”

“We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve.”

“To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for astonishment to people used to thinking of time in millions of kalpas, (A kalpa is about 4,320,000 years). The fact that the wise men of India have not been concerned with technological applications of this knowledge arises from the circumstance that technology is but one of innumerable ways of applying it.”

“Once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning in a circle.”

“In reality, I never want to grow up.”

“A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.”

“The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!”