Times before you, when even the living men were Antiquities; when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world, could not be properly said, to go unto the greater number.

That children dream not the first half year, that men dream not in some countries, with many more, are unto me sick men's dreams, dreams out of the Ivory gate,…

In the deep discovery of the Subterranean world, a shallow part would satisfy some enquirers.

That some have never dreamed is as improbable as that some have never laughed.

There is no reason for amazement: surely one always knew that cultures decay, and life's end is death.

Tempus edax rerum

We live, but a world has passed away With the years that perished to make us men.