Why do You Send Fools To judge My Work?

I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children.

The goods of Fortune, even such as they really are, still need taste to enjoy them. It is the enjoying no the possessing, that makes us happy.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.