What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.

But as for Lucy, she was always gay and golden-haired, and all princes in those parts desired her to be their Queen, and her own people called her Queen Lucy the Valiant.

One is given strength to bear what happens to one, but not the 100 and 1 different things that might happen.

We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.

If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it's not so bad.

[Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself, under-going a kind of death.