“We suffer a lot the few things we lack and we enjoy too little the many things we have.”
“For it falls outThat what we have we prize not to the worthWhiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost,Why, then we rack the value, then we findThe virtue that possession would not show usWhile it was ours.”
“We will have rings and things and fine array”
“Were such things here as we do speak about?Or have we eaten on the insane rootThat takes the reason prisoner?”
“We few. We happy few. We band of brothers, for he todayThat sheds his blood with meShall be my brother.”
“For we, which now behold these present days,Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.”
“When we can't understand the science behind something in this world, we make up mythological entities that we can relate to. We personify the forces of nature that mystify us, using our boundless imaginations to comfort us and make us feel like we have some control over these things that are much bigger than we are.”