He said that the way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day.

有机化学现在足以让人发疯。它给我一种原始热带森林的印象，充满了最非凡的事物，一个可怕的、无尽的丛林，人们不敢进入，因为似乎没有出路。