“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”

“The poetry of the earth is never dead”

“Mortality weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep”

“Museums are the cemeteries of the arts”

““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.”

“I cannot stop thinking that I died before I was born and that at my death I will return to the same state”