“What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?”
“Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark”
“A great leap in the dark”
“Life is nasty, brutish, and short”
“Hell is truth seen too late.”
“In the very shadows of doubt a thread of reason (so to speak) begins, by whose guidance we shall escape to the clearest light.”