No, no! I do nature injustice. She gave us inventive faculty, and set us naked, and helpless on the shore of this great ocean,--the world; swim those who can, the heavy may go to the bottom.

When the wine goes in, strange things come out.

Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.

Nothing leads to good that is not natural.

Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Great souls endure in silence.