What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.
Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.
Every form correctly seen is beautiful
I laugh at my heart, and do its will
Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.