“When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.”

“Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth”

“Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself”

“And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.”

“Remember that lost time does not return.”

“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”