No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.

You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.

... we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.

To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.

I return to the newborn world, and the soft-soil fields, What their first birthing lifted to the shores Of light, and trusted to the wayward winds. First the Earth gave the shimmer of greenery And grasses to deck the hills; then over the meadows The flowering fields are bright with the color of springtime, And for all the trees that shoot into the air.

Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.

The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.