Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it

Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; / When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; / And when Rome falls - the World.

Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.