Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.

So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.

What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.

Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles.

Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air's embrace.

Victory puts us on a level with heaven.

Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.