The Learned Man Knows That He Is

It Is Man's Consolation That The Future Is To Be A Sunrise Instead Of A Sunset.

Idleness Is The Heaviest Of All Oppressions.

A Breath Of Paris Preserves The Soul.

To Gaze Into The Depths Of The Sea Is, In The Imagination, Like Beholding The Vast Unknown, And From Its Most Terrible Point Of View. The Submarine Gulf Is Analogous To The Realm Of Night And Dreams. There Also Is Sleep, Unconsciousness, Or At Least Apparent Unconsciousness, Of Creation. There In The Awful Silence And Darkness, The Rude First Forms Of Life, Phantomlike, Demoniacal, Pursue Their Horrible Instincts.

If God Had Intended That Man Should Go Backward, He Would Have Given Him Eyes In The Back Of His Head.