For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
Consider your origins: you were not made that you might live as brutes, but so as to follow virtue and knowledge.
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 customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
Follow your own star!
Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.
From a little spark may burst a flame.
He listens well who takes notes.
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.
I love to doubt as well as know.
The secret of getting things done is to act.
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.
I wept not, so to stone within I grew.
Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
Nature is the art of God.
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
No one thinks of how much blood it costs.
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.
Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
Small projects need much more help than great.
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
Will cannot be quenched against its will.
There is no greater sorrow than to be mindful of the happy time in misery.
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.
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.
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