The best that can be said of you is that you got saved.

Calamity was ordained for man.

By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed.

The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

I would say the damage here is much more [than the tsunami], the magnitude of the calamity here is much more

What's wonderful is to read the different translations - some done in 1600 and some in 1900 - of the same passage. It's fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries.