Homer calls man a leaf, the smallest;
Pindar calls him the dream of a shadow,
Another:
The dream of a shadow of smoke;
But St. James spake, by a more excellent spirit, saying:
Our life is but a Vapour,
That is to say, drawn from the air by a celestial influence,
Made of smoke and the lighter parts of water,
Tossed by the wind
And moved by the motion of a superior body,
Without virtue in itself,
And lifted up on high or left below,
According as it pleases the demands of its foster fathers...