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.

Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared?

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.

Now you know how much my love for you burns deep in me when I forget about our emptiness, and deal with shadows as with solid things.

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Here pity only lives when it is dead - Virgil

If anyone should want to know my name, I am called Leah. And I spend all my time weaving garlands of flowers with my fair hands, t o please me when I stand before the mirror; my sister Rachel sits all the day long before her own, and never moves away. She loves to contemplate her lovely eyes; I love to use my hands to adorn myself: her joy is in reflection, mine in act.