The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.

Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.

The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.

The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.