Peter was dull; he was at first Dull; - Oh, so dull - so very dull! Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed - Still with his dulness was he cursed - Dull -beyond all conception - dull.

It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery.

Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.

Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?

Heaven's ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world.

It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it.

His fine wit Makes such a wound, the knife is lost in it.