“There studious let me sit,
And hold high converse with the mighty dead.”

“My days among the Dead are past;
Around me I behold,
Where'er these casual eyes are cast,
The mighty minds of old;
My never-failing friends are they,
With whom I converse day by day.”

“To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations — such is a pleasure beyond compare.”

“I am still of [the] opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood--sex and the dead.”

“And mighty poets in their misery dead.”

“Ignorance has its virtues; without it there’d be mighty little conversation.”

“Name none of the fallen, for they stand in our place, and stand there still in each moment of our lives. Let my death hold no glory, and let me die forgotten and unknown. Let it not be said that I was one among the dead to accuse the living.”

“How mighty are the Sabbaths,
How mighty and how deep,
That the high courts of heaven
To everlasting keep.”
O quanta qualia<br/>sunt illa sabbata,<br/>quae semper celebrat<br/>superna curia.

“Firms that have a high BE/ME (a low stock price relative to book value) tend to have low earnings on assets. Conversely, low BE/ME (a high stock price relative to book value) is associated with persistently high earnings.”

“Dude, this is a stoner conversation and we're not even high”