The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the freedom of will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed.

At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe.

Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness

I wept not — so to stone I grew within.

Often a retrospect delights the mind.

Hope not ever to see heaven. I come to lead you to the other shore; into the eternal darkness; into fire and ice.

The mouse had fallen in with evil cats.