The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.
As fall the light autumnal leaves, one still the other following, till the bough strews all its honors on the earth below.
Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone.
Pure essence, and pure matter, and the two joined into one were shot forth without flaw, like three bright arrows from a three-string bow.
Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.
He is not always at ease who laughs.
Eternal love made me.
A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
You sure know how to throw a party! No food, no drinks, and the only babe just left.
In His will, our peace.
The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
Follow your own star!
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God’s grandchild.
To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel.
Oh blind, oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity whcih spurs as so in the short mortal life and steeps as through all eternity.
Not one drop of blood is left inside my veins that does not throb: I recognize signs of the ancient flame.
As, pricked out with less and greater lights, between the poles of the universe, the Milky Way so gleameth white as to set very sages questioning.
The man who lies asleep will never waken fame.
The whole universe is but the footprint of the Divine goodness.