The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try

Wait for me." It was the same farewell as always. "Wait for me. I shall come back." And as ever, I made the same reply. "What else have I to do but wait for you? I shall be here, when you come again.

Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have more…

Only a child expects life to be just; it's a man's part to stand by the consequences of his deeds.

It is one thing to have the gift of seeing the spirits and hearing the Gods who move about us as we come and go; but it is a gift of darkness as well as light.