For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than agriculture. On Duties

As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion. Book II

this second, violent world gushed out fragrantly everywhere, except in our rooms, where Mother and Father were. And that was very good. It was wonderful that here among us there was peace, order, and repose, duty and a clear conscience, forgiveness and love—and wonderful that all the rest existed, all those noisy, glaring, somber, and violent things, which nevertheless could be escaped with a single bound toward one’s mother. Demian

That time does not run backward, that is its wrath; "That which was"--that is the name of the stone it cannot roll. Thus Spoke Zarathustra