Madame

“No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, or happier, or wiser. There was always more in the world than man could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being.”
― John Ruskin, Modern Painters: Volume 3. Of Many Things

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

“Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You can get all A's and still flunk life.”
― Walker Percy, The Second Coming