“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”

“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 most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship”

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

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

“The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler”