Life and Existence

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.

A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

… Mutato nomine de te

Non omnis moriar.

Eheu fugaces, Postume, Postume, Labuntur anni

Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero Pulsanda tellus.

Dum loquimur, fugerit invida

Dum loquimur, fugerit invida

Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.

Difficilis, querulus, laudator temporis acti Se puero, castigator censorque minorum.

To lift up the hands in prayer gives God glory, but a man with a dungfork in his hand, a woman with a slop-pail, give him glory too. He is so great that all things give him glory if you mean they should.

It ís the blight man was born for,

Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend

Áh! ás the heart grows older

All things counter, original, spare, strange;

Because the Holy Ghost over the bent

Elected Silence, sing to me

It lies in the lap of the gods.

Very like leaves

It is better to be seventy years young than forty years old!

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.