A backward glance can often lift the heart.

The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.

The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into cofusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true.

But the stars that marked our starting fall away. We must go deeper into greater pain, for it is not permitted that we stay.

As flowerlets drooped and puckered in the night turn up to the returning sun and spread their petals wide on his new warmth and light-just so my wilted spirits rose again and such a heat of zeal surged through my veins that I was born anew.

He listens well who takes notes.

He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.