Among all creatures that breathe on earth and crawl on it there is not anywhere a thing more dismal than man is.

I have gone through what no other mortal on earth has gone through; I put my lips to the hands of the man who has killed my children.

Man, supposing you and I, escaping this battle, would be able to live on forever, ageless, immortal, so neither would I myself go on fighting in the foremost, …

And you, old sir, we are told you prospered once.

I know my life's a pain and but a span, I know my sense is mocked with everything; And to conclude, I know myself a man, Which is a proud and yet a wretched th…

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, of sickness, or captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable; nor does it appear tha…

The normal process of life contains moments as bad as any of those which insane melancholy is filled with, moments in which radical evil gets its innings and t…