“Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn”

“The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today”

“Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders”

“Remember tonight.. for it is the beginning of always.”

“The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come”

“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”