The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.

Faith is like private capital, stored in one's own house. It is like a public savings bank or loan office, from which individuals receive assistance in their days of need; but here the creditor quietly takes his interest for himself.

There is no patriotic art.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.

If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.

I will say with Lorenzo de Medici that those who do not hope for another life are always dead to this one.