“Iniquum est collapsis manum non porrigere: commune hoc ius generis humani est"(It is wrong not to stretch out your hand to the fallen: that is a common law of the human race)”

“It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right of humanity.”

“When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?”

“Non est ad astra mollis e terris via.”

“Doubt not without hoping, hope not without doubting (free after Seneca)”

“It is of course better to know useless things than to know nothing.”

“To be everywhere, is to be no where at all”