He who ascends to mountain tops shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow, He who surpasses or subdues mankind Must look down on the hate of those below
The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing "about around and underneath" man, except man himself.
Maidens like moths are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.
Absence - that common cure of love.
For truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.