“Dust, who is not dust? I am dust. But I am your Member of Parliament, nevertheless.”

“The pictures, with their ruddy light,
Are changed to dust and ashes white,
And I am left alone with night.”

“Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.”

“Gather out of star-dust,
Earth-dust,
Cloud-dust,
Storm-dust,
And splinters of hail,
One handful of dream-dust,
Not for sale.”

“Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Is that all?”

“Let’s return now to the dust as the dust we are”

“I desired my dust to be mingled with yours
Forever and forever and forever.”

“We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. We make more than dust.

That's all we ask of you. Make more than dust.”

“Patience! Hence—that word was made
For brutes of burthen, not for birds of prey;
Preach it to mortals of a dust like thine,—
I am not of thine order.”

“I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.”