It is not wise to neglect the present for the future, for who knows what the future will be?

Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last.

That which is alive hath known death, and that which is dead can never die, for in the Circle of the Spirit life is naught and death is naught. Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.

Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been, can never die, though they blend and change, and change again for ever.

The great wheel of Fate rolls on like a Juggernaut, and crushes us all in turn, some soon, some late

We were like confirmed opium-eaters: in our moments of reason we well knew the deadly nature of our pursuit, but we certainly were not prepared to abandon its terrible delights.

A sharp spear needs no polish.