The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.

One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years.

Great is his faith who dares believe his own eyes.

To one who waits, all things reveal themselves so long as you have the courage not to deny in the darkness what you have seen in the light.

Then sleep the seasons, full of might; While slowly swells the pod, And rounds the peach, and in the night The mushroom bursts the sod. The winter comes: the frozen rut Is bound with silver bars; the white drift heaps against the hut; and night is pierced with stars.

Uncommon things must be said in common words.

Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, and pleasures of the world may seem unworthy even of hatred - may not even be encumbrances.