Your greatness is measured by your horizons.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than that of the sheep with which he is clothed.

The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires.

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.

If people knew how hard I worked at my art, they would not consider me a genius.