“All things by nature are ready to get worse.”

Every man’s last day is fixed. Lifetimes are brief, and not to be regained, for all mankind. But by their deeds to make their fame last: that is labor for the brave.

Rumor starts as a timid thing, But soon it covers the earth, and its voices ring, While its feet walk the ground and its head is above the clouds.

Time carries all things, even our wits, away.

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

She has a human face and as far as the groin she is a girl with lovely breasts, but below she is a monstrous sea creature, her womb full of wolves

Each of us bears his own Hell.

Time passes irrevocably.

All our sweetest hours fly fastest

No day shall erase you from the memory of time.

Look with favour upon a bold beginning.

A woman is an ever fickle and changeable thing.

All bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.

Fortune favors the bold.

If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth – soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

Travel through the stars with me in my nostalgic dream of summer nights, white wine, and sleeping under nature’s canopy.

For all at last return to the sea- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.

The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place himself under the influence of earth, sea and sky and their amazing life.

Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.

In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.