"Opinionum enim commenta delet dies; naturæ judicia..." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.”

“Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Live so, my Love, that when death shall come, Swan-like and sweet it may waft thee home.”

“All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.”

“Spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it, reminds me of the Englishman who went to India to make a fortune first, in order that he might return to England and live the life of a poet. He should have gone up garret at once.”

“Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away.”

“Every thing that grows / Holds in perfection but a little moment.”

“To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.”

“When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.”

“Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.”