“Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at ease.”— Ovid, Tristia, I, i, 39; tr. Arthur Leslie WheelerShare
“Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.”— OvidShare
“Time, in its stealthy gliding, cheats us all without our notice; nothing goes more swiftly than do the years.”— OvidShare
“Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient.”— Johann Wolfgang von GoetheShare
“Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind.”— EpictetusShare
