Alas! When duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.
Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present.
There is more to life than just existing and having a pleasant time.
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
Heaven and earth fight in vain against a dunce!
It is at the approach of extreme danger when a hollow puppet can accomplish nothing, that power falls into the mighty hands of nature, of the spirit giant-born, who listens only to himself, and knows nothing of compacts.