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And then he recalled the lines of Catullus the sad, stately plaint of the classic world, like the suppressed sob of a strong man: "Soles occidere et redire possunt, Nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux, Nox est perpetuo una dormienda." And then he thought again of Virgil, and called up a Tuscan landscape that expressed him, and lines of cypresses that moved on majestic like hexameters.
"Yes, and he was most anxious to see you, and he went with me to St. Joseph's the Sunday you gave the great Mass of Pope Marcellus. He was distressed that he could not see you to tell you about the choir." "They sang better that Sunday than the Sunday you heard the 'Missa Brevis. I have got two new trebles. One has an exquisite voice. I wish I could get a few good altos.
There were quite three acres of available surface altogether, and not farther than a mile from Weston; but "Ars longa, vita brevis est;" the art of cutting figures is long, and the period of practice short indeed. Considering the price spent on skates in England, and the few opportunities of putting them on, it seems barbarous of masters not to give whole holidays when the ice does bear.
Let the penalty for infringement in the one case be to read the last President's Message, and in the other to look at the Webster statue one hour a day, for a term not so long as to violate the spirit of the law forbidding cruel and unusual punishments. Perhaps it is too much to expect of our legislators that they should pass so self-denying an ordinance. Vita brevis, lingua longa.
I must also tell you that I belong, if not by spiritual height, at least by all the tendencies of my mind and character, to that strong and serious school of artists of another age who, finding that art is long and life is short ars longa et vita brevis did not commit the mistake of wasting their time and lessening their powers of creation by silly and insipid intrigues.
JOHNSON. 'To a man of mere animal life, you can urge no argument against going to America, but that it will be some time before he will get the earth to produce. But a man of any intellectual enjoyment will not easily go and immerse himself and his posterity for ages in barbarism. He and my lord spoke highly of Homer. JOHNSON. 'He had all the learning of his age. Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.
But enough of this, for there is truth in the old saying: 'Si brevis esse volo, obscurus fio', and I believe that, without offending against modesty, I can apply to myself the following words of my dear Virgil: 'Nec sum adeo informis: nuper me in littore vidi Cum placidum ventis staret mare.
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