"What springs from earth dissolves to earth..." - Quote by Marcus Aurelius

“A rational nature admits of nothing but what is serviceable to the rest of mankind.”

“Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?”

“Enter others' minds and let them enter yours.”

“Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind.”

“Course, that's the trouble with politics, it breeds politics! So that makes it pretty hard to stamp out.”

“Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within.”

“You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother.”

“What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.”

“Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations.”