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.

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

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

Love, that all gentle hearts so quickly know.

Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure.

Blessed are the peacemakers, For they have freed themselves from sinful wrath.

Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?