The devil is not as black as he is painted.

As one who sees in dreams and wakes to find the emotional impression of his vision still powerful while its parts fade from his mind - Just such am I, having lost nearly all the vision itself, while in my heart I feel the sweetness of it yet distill and fall.

A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.

They find seven cornices on which penitent and redeemed sinners are cleansed by the grace of God. On the first cornice, that of Pride, the proud are learning humility: Our Father, dwelling in the Heavens, nowise As circumscribed, but as the things above, Thy first effects, are dearer in Thine eyes, Hallowed Thy name be and the Power thereof, By every creature, as right meet it is We praise the tender effluence of Thy love. Let come to us, let come Thy kingdom's peace.

The man who lies asleep will never waken fame.

For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

Justice divine has weighed: the doom is clear. All hope renounce, ye lost, who enter here.