As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that strange sight.
Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.
Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength.
Stand firm as the tower that never shakes its top whatever wind may blow.
We have no hope and yet we live in longing.
At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe.
The glory of Him who moves everything penetrates through the universe, and is resplendent in one part more and in another less.
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
Small projects need much more help than great.
Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure.
Ah! Justice of our God! Who else could stow Such travails new and pains as met my glance!
I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon.
How come I never meet any nice girls?
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness.
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
Astrology, the noblest of sciences.
If your world isn’t right, the cause is in you.
Love can move the Sun and the stars.
You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man’s bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man’s stairs.