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

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.

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.

Great is his faith who dares believe his own eyes.

Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century.

Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.

A saint is a person who does almost everything any other decent person does, only somewhat better and with a totally different motive.