Beauty awakens the soul to act.
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.
There is no greater sorrow Than to recall a happy time When miserable.
Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.
Follow your own star!
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
He listens well who takes notes.
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?
The path to paradise begins in hell.
He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.”
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.