"When his career was ended in 1864 he had the mortification of witnessing the ruin of a teaching to which he had devot…"

"De roos bade 't hoofd in den stralenden gloed, Wen eens haar de storrem ontluistert, verdoet, Zoo moge z' in 't duist…"

"Schoon de dag nag marre Schittert door 't azuur Vast der avondstarre Rozenkwistend vuur."

"Pergit opus Veneris variis disponere formis, Et docilem molli flectere ab arte natem, Dum quaesita Venus totis guttat…"

"Simon Vinkenoog died at the full age of nearly 81. Indeed, yesterday 18 July would have been his birthday. Born and b…"

"In the sixties and seventies, he presided over the wave of hippyism that swept Amsterdam. He pioneered the reinstatin…"

"Maybe nothing is completely true, and not even that."

"One must live with all, e'en if life be hell: Crime makes shame, not monetary stricture"

"I would like to meet myself sometime to see how I would look to myself. But I'd have to be in an extremely good state…"

"The entire morality of the world could be summarized in the words, do as others do."