Dante Alighieri

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. ”

Nature is the art of God. ”

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

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

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

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

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