Mercury

Mercury
The Intellectual Urges
and
the Archetype of Thought
Chapter 11

Learning is like mercury,
one of the most powerful and excellent things
in the world in skillful hands;
in unskillful, the most mischievous.
Alexander Pope

I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven,
revolving round the sun,
than the first among five revolving round Saturn.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A night with Venus, a lifetime with Mercury.
Anonymous

Mercury appears to be the closest planet to the Sun, and it is one of the smallest planets in our solar system. Its diameter is smaller than the diameters of some of the larger moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Mercury has no moons or satellites itself.