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The great refusal.

My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates.

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

Art for art's sake.

The vesper bell from far That seems to mourn for the expiring day.

Ah, savage company; but in the church With saints, and in the taverns with the gluttons.

O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore!

So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth,

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock.

Let us not speak of them; but look, and pass on.

O how far remov'd, Predestination! is thy foot from such As see not the First Cause entire: and ye, O mortal men! be wary how ye judge: For we, who see the Maker, know not yet The number of the chosen; and esteem Such scantiness of knowledge our delight: For all good is, in that primal good, Concentrate; and God's will and ours are one.

Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.

Three sparks--pride, envy, and avarice--have been kindled in all hearts.

It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.

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

Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs.

Not in mine eyes alone in Paradise.

Their eyes seem'd rings from whence the gems were gone.

The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long.