Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
To learn is to be young, however old.
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Art is far feebler than necessity.
A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.
On him who wields power gently, the god looks favorably from afar.