Peter

“I may be a burglar...but I'm an honest one, I hope, more or less.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“I have of late—but wherefore
I know not—lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of
exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my
disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to
me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy,
the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament,
this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why,
it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent
congregation of vapors. What a piece of work is a man!
How noble in reason, how infinite in faculties,
in form and moving how express and admirable,
in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like
a god! The beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!
And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man
delights not me—no, nor woman neither, though by
your smiling you seem to say so.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“...what are the comprehensible terrors of man compared with the interlinked terrors and wonders of God!”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must for that very reason infallibly be faulty.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale