A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his senses and his reason has deserted him.
Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.
Courage is a kind of salvation.
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.
Love - a grave mental disease.
We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.