Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

Good writing comes from good talent.

The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

The Medici created and destroyed me.

It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters.

I am still hopeful. A falcon, Time. But the coincidence is probably accidental.