He listens well who takes notes.

He listens well who takes notes.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

No one thinks of how much blood it costs.

From a little spark may burst a flame.

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

I love to doubt as well as know.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

I wept not, so to stone within I grew.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.

A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.

Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.

Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.

Nature is the art of God.

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.

Follow your own star!

Small projects need much more help than great.

At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe.

Pride, envy, avarice, these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

Do not be afraid; our fate cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality.

I wept not so to stone within I grew.

The loser when a game of dice is done remains behind reviewing every roll sadly and sadly wiser and alone.

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way and now that and changes name as it changes direction.

Do not be afraid our fate Cannot be taken from us it is a gift.

The whole universe is but the footprint of the Divine goodness.

Heat cannot be separated from fire or beauty from The Eternal.

Heaven wheels above you displaying to you her eternal glories and still your eyes are on the ground.

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself astray in a dark wood where the straight road had been lost sight of.

He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.

As, pricked out with less and greater lights, between the poles of the universe, the Milky Way so gleameth white as to set very sages questioning.

The path to paradise begins in hell.

Follow your path, and let the people talk.

A man's renown is like the hue of grass, Which comes and goes.