All theory is gray, my friend. But forever green is the tree of life. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I bid the chords sweet music make,
And all must follow in my wake.

Night is the other half of life, and the better half.

"If you inquire what the people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere." The human race is but a monotonous affair. Most of them labour the greater part of their time for mere subsistence; and the scanty portion of freedom which remains to them so troubles them that they use every exertion to get rid of it. Oh, the destiny of man!"