Where the way is hardest, there go thou; Follow your own path and let people talk.

Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible.

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.

It may be that a more subtle person would find for this thing a reason of greater subtlety: but such is the reason that I find, and that liketh me best.

But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars

Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innoucuous need not be feared.