Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
Hope is a working-man's dream.
The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.