Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

"The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal."

"O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life."

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."

"While there's life, there's hope."

"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief."