• We waste our best years in distilling the sweetest flowers of life into potions which, after all, do not immortalize, but only intoxicate.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: We waste our best years in distilling the sweetest flowers of life into potions which, after all, do not immortalize, but only intoxicate.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.150