"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."

"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."

"From a little spark may burst a flame."

"Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always."

"Nature is the art of God."

"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."

"The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise."

"Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground."

"I love to doubt as well as know."

"O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!"

"The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come."

"No one thinks of how much blood it costs."

"In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost."

"Will cannot be quenched against its will."

"There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery."

"Beauty awakens the soul to act."

"The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is."

"If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought."

"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."

"All hope abandon, ye who enter here!"

"Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men."

"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis."