How alone everyone is in the vast tomb of the universe!

On the church vaulting above was the clock-face of eternity, void of number and serving as its own hand, only one black finger was pointing and the dead wanted to tell the time by it.

Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present

The Fates and Furies, as well as the Graces and Sirens, glide with linked hands over life.

As a rule, for no one does life drag more disagreeably than for him who tries to speed it up

Suns are extinguished or become corrupted, planets perish and scatter across the wastes of the sky; other suns are kindled, new planets formed to make their revolutions or describe new orbits, and man, an infinitely minute part of a globe which itself is only an imperceptible point in the immense whole, believes that the universe is made for himself.