Alexander Pope

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.

James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond.

Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.