"If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought."

"All hope abandon, ye who enter here!"

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

"A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence."

"Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge."

"For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?"

"All right, then, I'll say it: Dante makes me sick."

"Have not all races had their first unity from a mythology that marries them to rock and hill?"

"If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one."

"We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt."

"God is in the details."

"Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace."