"Time is my estate: to Time I'm..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.”

“Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.”

“I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.”

“It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.”

“For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.”

“One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of the old.”

“When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.”

“You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.”

“The farmer is a poor creature who skins the land and leaves it worthless to his children. The farmer is a good farmer who, having enabled the land to support himself and to provide for the education of his children, leaves it to them a little better than he found it himself.”