O mortal men, be wary of how ye judge.

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

The heavens call to you, and circle about you, displaying to you their eternal splendors, and your eye gazes only to earth.

There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair

They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of them. ...And since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks a backward path.

The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride.

That infinite and indescribable good which is there above races as swiftly to love as a ray of light to a bright body.It gives of itself according to the ardor it finds, so that as charity spreads farther the eternal good increases upon it,and the more souls there are who love, up there, the more there are to love well, and the more love they reflect to each other, as in a mirror.