I feast on wine and bread, and feasts they are.

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.

The greatest risk to man is not that he aims to high and misses, but that he aims to low and hits.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

Is it any wonder, since, when near the fire, I was melted and burned, if now that it's extinguished outside me, it besets and consumes me inside, and bit by bit reduces me to ashes?

It is not sufficient merely to be a great master in painting and very wise, but I think that it is necessary for the painter to be very moral in his mode of life, or even, if such were possible, a saint, so that the Holy Spirit may inspire his intellect.

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.