“War is the father and king of all.”

“Men forget where the way leads and what they meet with every day seems strange to them.We should not act and speak like men asleep.”

“Most people do not take heed of the things they encounter, nor do they grasp them even when they have learned about them, although they suppose they do.”

“He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored”

“The seeing have the world in common.”

“Is it not better to intimate our astonishment as we pass through this world if it be only for a moment ere we are swallowed up in the yeast of the abyss? I will lift up my hands and say Kosmos.”

“Teach me your mood, O patient stars. Who climb each night, the ancient sky. leaving on space no shade, no scars, no trace of age, no fear to die.”

“The wind-shak'd surge, with high and monstrous main,Seems to cast water on the burning Bear,And quench the guards of the ever-fixed pole.”