If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the human intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its abysses of ineptitude.

If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the human intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its abysses of ineptitude.

There, by the starlit fences The wanderer halts and hears My soul that lingers sighing About the glimmering weirs.

I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.

Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.