When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.

No-one is exempt from speaking nonsense – the only misfortune is to do it solemnly.

Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.

It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness of her works by our inventions that we have quite smothered her.

All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest

I would rather be old for a shorter time than be old before my time.