““I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.”

“An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return”

“Museums are the cemeteries of the arts”

“Mortality weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep”

“The poetry of the earth is never dead”

“Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances”