Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
... she, that will with kittens jest, Should bear a kitten's joke.
Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
Still ending, and beginning still.
They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
Not to understand a treasure's worth till time has stole away the slighted good, is cause of half the poverty we feel, and makes the world the wilderness it is.