Life and Existence

One’s prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognise your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.

I am putting old heads on your young shoulders … all my pupils are the crème de la crème.

There are many wonderful things, and nothing is more wonderful than man.

Crito, we owe a cock to Aesculapius; please pay it and don’t forget it.

Crito, we owe a cock to Aesculapius; please pay it and don’t forget it.

It is perfectly certain that the soul is immortal and imperishable, and our souls will actually exist in another world.

Music, when soft voices die,

How wonderful is Death,

Ere Babylon was dust,

The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.

‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:

I met a traveller from an antique land

Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!

Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!

Nought may endure but Mutability.

Nought may endure but Mutability.

When the lamp is shattered

The world’s great age begins anew,

The world’s great age begins anew,

Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,

Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,

From the contagion of the world’s slow stain

He has out-soared the shadow of our night.

Alas! that all we loved of him should be,