Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.

The divine power moves with difficulty, but at the same time surely.

Human excellence means nothing Unless it works with the consent of God.

The gift of a bad man can bring no good.

I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to call her by. It was she who gave to man his nourishment of grain. But after her there came the son of Semele, who matched her present by inventing liquid wine as his gift to man. For filled with that good gift, suffering mankind forgets its grief; from it comes sleep; with it oblivion of the troubles of the day. There is no other medicine for misery.