Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
From a little spark may burst a flame.
The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.
A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
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.
He listens well who takes notes.
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.
Will cannot be quenched against its will.
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.
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.
I wept not, so to stone within I grew.
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
