“This last best luck of all: that earth should gape for me when my great deeds were ended.”

“Where were all heroical parts but in Helteranius? and a man might make a garment for the moon sooner than fit the o'erleaping actions of great Jalcanaius, who now leaveth but his body to bedung tha...”

“He that feareth is a slave, were he never so rich, were he never so powerful. But he that is without fear is king of all the world. Though hast my sword. Strike. Death shall be a sweet rest to me. ...”

“Surely, he said, the great mountains of the world are a present remedy if men did but know it against our modern discontent and ambitions. In the hills is wisdoms fount. They are deep in time. They...”

“Thunder and blood and night must usurp our parts, to complete and make up the catastrophe of this great piece.”

“These things hath Fate brought to pass, and we be but Fate's whipping-tops bandied what way she will.”

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”

“There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.”

“In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.”

“Lost Time is never found again.”

“How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever.”

“Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.”