"Farewell! a long farewell to all my..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.”

“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.”

“Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, but graciously to know I am no better.”

“Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.”

“If it is true to say of the lazy that they kill time, then it is greatly to be feared that an era which sees its salvation in public opinion, this is to say private laziness, is a time that really will be killed: I mean that it will be struck out of the history of the true liberation of life. How reluctant later generations will be to have anything to do with the relics of an era ruled, not by living men, but by pseudo-men dominated by public opinion.”

“Without such inspiration, we would rapidly deteriorate and finally perish.”

“Nothing in his life became him like leaving it.”

“Let it not be death but completeness. Let love melt into memory and pain into songs. Let the flight through the sky end in the folding of the wings over the nest. Let the last touch of your hands be gentle like the flower of the night. Stand still, O Beautiful End, for a moment, and say your last words in silence. I bow to you and hold up my lamp to light you on your way.”

“...of two simple men I saw today on the pier in the midst of the crowd, parting the parting of dear friends, the one to remain hung on the other's neck and passionately kissed him. While the one to depart tightly pressed the one to remain in his arms.”