It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.

How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.

It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.

Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.

Every year lays more earth upon us, which weighs us down from aerial regions, till we go under the earth at last.

Boys should not play with weapons more dangerous than they understand.

Human beings ought not to draw in their antennae at every ungentle touch, like supersensitive insects.