“Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.”

“Our bodies bound by space and time, under laws of nature.That's why we see life as if a journey in space that needs time.When we pass boundary, we'll see that life is a state of nature.”

“Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature,that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so securestranquility.”

“According to Dickens, the first rule of human nature is self-preservation and when I forgive him for writing a character as pathetic as Oliver Twist, I'll thank him for the advice.”

“Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of feudalism are artificial institutions, those of the bourgeoisie are natural institutions. In this, they resemble the theologians, who likewise establish two kinds of religion. Every religion which is not theirs is an invention of men, while their own is an emanation from God. When the economists say the present-day relations--the relations of bourgeois production--are natural, they imply that these are the relations in which wealth is created and productive forces developed in conformity with the laws of nature. These relations therefore are themselves natural laws independent of the influence of time. They are eternal laws which must always govern society. Thus, there has been history, but there is no longer any. There has been history, since there were institutions of feudalism, and in these institutions of feudalism we find quite different relations of production from those of bourgeois society, which the economists try to pass off as natural and, as such, eternal.”

“To HeraO Royal Hera of majestic mien, aerial-form'd, divine, Zeus' blessed queen,Thron'd in the bosom of cærulean air, the race of mortals is thy constant care.The cooling gales thy pow'r alone inspires, which nourish life, which ev'ry life desires.Mother of clouds and winds, from thee alone producing all things, mortal life is known:All natures share thy temp'rament divine, and universal sway alone is thine.With founding blasts of wind, the swelling sea and rolling rivers roar, when shook by thee.Come, blessed Goddess, fam'd almighty queen, with aspect kind, rejoicing and serene.”