Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. [Omnes relinquite spes, o vos intrantes]

Small projects need much more help than great.

But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars

He listens well who takes notes.

Thou shall know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs.

One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innoucuous need not be feared.

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.