Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.

Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book.

We don't get to know anything but what we love.

Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born

Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.

Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.

The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn.