Nature and Elements

The spider’s touch, how exquisitely fine!

Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutored mind

Why has not man a microscopic eye?

Eye Nature’s walks, shoot Folly as it flies,

Hills peep o’er hills, and Alps on Alps arise!

Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored;

Ghastly, grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore—

Ghastly, grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore—

Water is best. But gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces [the heavens] terrifies me.

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again, but already it was impossible to say which was which.

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

Four legs good, two legs bad.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.

O Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!

The cow is of the bovine ilk;

The turtle lives ’twixt plated decks

The camel has a single hump;

I never nursed a dear gazelle,

Oft, in the stilly night,

’Tis the last rose of summer

’Tis the last rose of summer

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she isn’t amusing herself with me more than I am with her?