Edward Young

“Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.”

“Virtue alone has majesty in death.”

“The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.”

“Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.”

“Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.”

“Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.”

“By all means use some time to be alone.”

“Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordlings enjoy.”

“Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.”