The egg it is the source of all. Tis everyone's ancestral hall. The bravest chief that ever fought, The lowest thief that e'er was caught, The harlot's lip, the maiden's leg, They each and all came from an egg.

The worshipper of energy is too physically energetic to see that he cannot explore certain higher fields until he is still.

As to modesty and decency, if we are simians we have done well, considering: but if we are something else-fallen angels-we have indeed fallen far.

This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid for in full.

As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.

Every maiden's weak and willin' When she meets the proper villian.

The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober; not always, but most of the time.