The high strength of men knows no content with limitation.

Let there be wealth without tears; enough for the wise man who will ask no further.

The moving light, rejoicing in its strength, Sped from the pyre of pine, and urged its way, In golden glory, like some strange new sun.

I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death

Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.

Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us.

So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft: With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.