Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things.
From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.
Love is a beautiful image Imagined or seen within the heart, The friend of virtue and gentility.
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
Let it be enough for you to have bread and live virtuously and poorly like Christ, as I do here. I live meanly and don't bother about life or honor ... and I live with the greatest toil and a thousand worries. It is now about 15 years since I had a happy hour.