The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.

The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.

To have more, you must first be more.

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

As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim; So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth, eternal Reason, Which from Beauty takes its dress, And serene through time and season Stands aye in loveliness.

There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.

How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.