“To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.”

“This was not a fearie tale. This was not the movies. This was life. It hurt more. It was excruciating. It was excruciatingly beautiful.”

“Once he makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.”

“The full experience of something beautiful or terrifying cannot be expressed in words.”

“The caterpillar achieves its full freedom and potential by transforming into a butterfly. This is the real beauty of change.”

“Virgil is serene and lovely like a marble Apollo in the moonlight; Homer is a beautiful, animated youth in the full sunlight with the wind in his hair.”

“Take a course of good water and air, and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.”

“I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.”

“Though it seemed so beautiful, the world around us was eternally dangerous. The price of spiritual freedom, we learnt, was eternal vigilance. Such a high price for so long.”

“Crabbed age and youth cannot live together:
Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care”