Seeking with the soul the land of the Greeks.

Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient.

A useless life is an early death.

To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence-this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.

La gloire est le soleil des morts.

My lord and Dr Johnson disputed a little, whether the savage or the London shopkeeper had the best existence; his lordship, as usual, preferring the savage.

Perhaps history this century, thought Eigenvalue, is rippled with gathers in its fabric such that if we are situated, as Stencil seemed to be, at the bottom of…