And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.

That infinite and indescribable good which is there above races as swiftly to love as a ray of light to a bright body.It gives of itself according to the ardor it finds, so that as charity spreads farther the eternal good increases upon it,and the more souls there are who love, up there, the more there are to love well, and the more love they reflect to each other, as in a mirror.

Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch.

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.

When I had journeyed half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray.

Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!

Your fame is as the grass, whose hue comes and goes, and His might withers it by whose power it sprang from the lap of the earth.