Wonders

"He shall have chariots easier than air, That I will have invented;… And thyself, That art the messenger, shalt ride before him On a horse cut out of an entire diamond. That shall be made to go with golden wheels, I know not how yet."

"The things that have been and shall be no more, The things that are, and that hereafter shall be, The things that might have been, and yet were not, The fading twilight of joys departed."

"Out of our reach the gods have laid Of time to come th event, And laugh to see the fools afraid Of what the knaves invent."

"Long stood the noble youth oppressd with awe, And stupid at the wondrous things he saw, Surpassing common faith, transgressing natures law."

"We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast, When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes, And a man with his back to the East."

"Never see … a dead post-boy, did you?" inquired Sam…. "No," rejoined Bob, "I never did." "No!" rejoined Sam triumphantly. "Nor never vill; and theres another thing that no man never see, and thats a dead donkey."

"Theres something in a flying horse, Theres something in a huge balloon."

"This wonder lasted nine daies."

"Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science."

"O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! and yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping."

"Mira cano; sol occubuit; Nox nulla secuta est."

"If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself … that a tiger is an optical illusion—well, he will find out he is wrong. The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive."