If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.
Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
To know truly is to know by causes.
By indignities men come to dignities.
The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.