"The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is" — Dante Alighieri

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

Source: Mansfield Park (1814)

A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back

Dante Alighieri Quote