All love is sweet, given or received.

The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the state is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of anarchy and despotism.

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.

To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.

Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow claspest the limits of mortality.

The jealous keys of truth's eternal doors.

Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to decay, Like the bubbles on a river Sparkling, bursting, borne away.