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.

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.

Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse.

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

Weep, for the light is dead.

The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows.

Time flies on restless pinions - constant never.