If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
I feast on wine and bread, and feasts they are.
I criticise by creation, not by finding fault.
No great work of art is ever finished.
My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.