“One day the last portrait of Rembrandt and the last bar of Mozart will have ceased to be — though possibly a colored canvas and a sheet of notes will remain — because the last eye and the last ear accessible to their message will have gone.”

“This wonder (as wonders last) lasted nine daies.”

“Never have I had the impression of such a moral and civic downfall. In no country, not even the last of the last, what is happening here would be possible.”

“One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.”

“I wonder if it's possible to have a love affair that lasts forever.”

“Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.”

“After the last notes of Gotterdammerung I felt as though I had been let out of prison.”

“Last night there seemed to be a chance. Anything was possible last night. That was the trouble with last nights. They were always followed by this mornings.”

“How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.”

“One who in accordance with these notes will take pains in selecting his method of construction, may count upon having something that will last.”