Our civilization depends largely on paper.
In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
The happier the moment the shorter.
The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
Many other means there be, that promise the foreknowledge of things to come: besides the raising up and conjuring of ghosts departed, the conference also with familiars and spirits infernal. And all these were found out in our days, to be no better than vanities and false illusions.