The soul of man is like the rolling world, One half in day, the other dipt in night; The one has music and the flying cloud, The other, silence and the wakeful stars.

We hear the wail of the remorseful winds In their strange penance. And this wretched orb Knows not the taste of rest; a maniac world, Homeless and sobbing thro…

Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine.

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.

Thus is man that great and true Amphibium, whose nature is disposed to live not only like other creatures in divers elements, but in divided and distinguished …

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal.... As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

There is surely a piece of Divinity within us, something that was before the Elements, and owes no homage unto the Sun.