While there's life, there's hope. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."

"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."

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

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