Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.