Gray hairs are death's blossoms.

What is the short meaning of the long speech?

If yon wish to be like the gods on earth, to be free in the realms of the dead, pluck not the fruit from the garden! In appearance it may glisten to the eye; but the perishable pleasure of possession quickly avenges the curse of curiosity.

No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who's made the master of his destiny.

The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man.

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness.