Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom.

A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.

When we encountered a band of souls coming along the barrier, and each was gazing at us in the evening people gaze at one another under the new moon

Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.

There is a place in Hell called the Malebolge.

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.

But if, as morning rises, dreams are true.