The present will not long endure.
My God grant me love for that which has splendor, but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.
Men are the dreams of a shadow.
Learn what you are and be such.
Sweet is war to those who know it not.
Creatures of a day, what is any one? What is he not? Man is but a dream of a shadow. Yet when there comes as a gift of heaven a gleam of sunshine, there rest upon men a radiant light and, aye, a gentle life.