“There's a snake hidden in the grass. Virgil. Ecologues,no. 3.1.1o8”

“But,...we should first learn the winds and the nature of the sky, the customary cultivation and the ways of the place. What each region bears and rejects. Here corn shoots up, and there grapes do. Elsewhere young trees grow strong and the wild grasses.”

“It is easy to go down into Hell...; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air---there's the rub...”

“Fléctere si néqueo súperos Acheronta movebo - If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.”

“Will Mars be always in your windy tongue and in your flying feet?”

“Love conquers all; therefore, let us submit to love.”

“Optima dies...prima fugit (The best days are the first to flee)”