“En asuntos de arte la modestia no es una virtud.”

“No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.”

“It is useless to talk with those who do not understand one and troublesome to talk with those who criticize from a feeling of superiority. Especially one-sided persons are troublesome. Few are accomplished in many arts and most cling narrowly to their own opinion.”

“The world know it not; but you, Autumn, I confess it: your wind at night-fall stabs deep into my heart”

“No penance can your hard heart find save such as you long since have taught me to endure”

“How much the more in judging of the human heart should we distrust all fashionable airs and graces, all tricks and smartness, learnt only to please the outward gaze”

“Autumn is no time to lie alone”