The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.
All art is but imitation of nature.
Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.