Every chair should be a throne and hold a king.

Knowledge is the antidote to fear

Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.

Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no God attends.

When I walk up the piazza of Santa Croce I feel as if it were not a Florentine nor an European church but a church built by and for the human race.

A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.