Speak no evil of women; I tell thee the meanest of them deserves respect; for of women do we not all come?
Great events have sent before them their announcements.
How surely a knowledge of the world hardens the heart!
What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?
One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
And yet, and yet, in these our ghostly lives, Half night, half day, half sleeping, half awake, How if our waking life, like that of sleep, Be all a dream in that eternal life To which we wake not till we sleep in death