The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
The world's a scene of changes.
Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!