He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments, and in stronger and better light than his perishing and mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.
How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art.
Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
Those who enter the gates of heaven are not beings who have no passions or who have curbed the passions, but those who have cultivated an understanding of them.