“The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened into activity. Your apprehensive faculty draws an impression from a real object, and unfolds it within you, so that it makes the mind turn thereto. And if, being turned, it inclines towards it, that inclination is love; that is nature, which through pleasure is bound anew within you.”

“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.”