“And he began, "What chance or destinyhas brought you here before your final day?And who is he who leads your pilgrimage?""Up there in life beneath the quiet starsI lost my way," I answered, "in a valley,before I'd reached the fullness of my age.I turned my shoulders on it yesterday:this soul appeared as I was falling back,and by the road through Hell he leads me home.""Follow your star and you will never fail to find your glorious port," he said to me”

“There is no greater sorrowthan thinking back upon a happy timein misery--”

“Oh human creatures, born to soar aloft,Why fall ye thus before a little wind?”

“Through me is the way to the city of woe. Through me is the way to sorrow eternal. Through me is the way to the lost below. Justice moved my architect supernal. I was constructed by divine power,supreme wisdom, and love primordial. Before me no created things were. Save those eternal, and eternal I abide. Abandon all hope, you who enter.”

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

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

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

“The secret of getting things done is to act!”

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

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

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