“What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art.”

“As Rome passed away, so, the West is passing away, from the same causes and in much the same way. What the Danube and Rhine were to Rome, the Rio Grande and Mediterranean are to America and Europe, the frontiers of a civilization no longer defended.”

“Is she not passing fair?”

“None of this is fair. It isn't fair that part of your life was ripped from you. It's not fair that you were ripped away from me. I'm so angry Simon.”

“The Greeks follow a wrong usage in speaking of coming into being and passing away; for nothing comes into being or passes away, but there is mingling and separation of things that are. So they would be right to call coming into being mixture, and passing away separation.”

“We live, but a world has passed away
With the years that perished to make us men.”

“The road to Hades is easy to travel; at any rate men pass away with their eyes shut.”

“Men are we, and must grieve when even the Shade
Of that which once was great, is passed away.”

“When lovely woman stoops to folly,
And finds too late that men betray,
What charm can soothe her melancholy?
What art can wash her guilt away?”

“Art is what you can get away with.”