“The signs of the old flame, I know them well.I pray that the earth gape deep enough to take me downor the almighty Father blast me with one bolt to the shades,the pale, glimmering shades in hell, the pit of night,before I dishonor you, my conscience, break your laws.”

“Let me rage before I die.”

“There are twin Gates of Sleep. One, they say, is called the Gate of Horn and it offers easy passage to all true shades. The other glistens with ivory, radiant, flawless, but through it the dead send false dreams up toward the sky. And here Anchises, his vision told in full, escorts his son and Sibyl both and shows them out now through the Ivory Gate.”

“Fléctere si néqueo súperos Acheronta movebo - If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.”

“It is easy to go down into Hell...; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air---there's the rub...”

“Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you. ”

“The descent into Hell is easy”