At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe.
— Dante Alighieri
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.
The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.
A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
Follow your own star!
I love to doubt as well as know.
No one thinks of how much blood it costs.
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Small projects need much more help than great.
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.
The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
From a little spark may burst a flame.
I wept not, so to stone within I grew.
Will cannot be quenched against its will.
The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
The secret of getting things done is to act!
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.
Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
He listens well who takes notes.
Nature is the art of God.
Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.
Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
