The mouse had fallen in with evil cats.

As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force.

There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.

O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below!

It may be that a more subtle person would find for this thing a reason of greater subtlety: but such is the reason that I find, and that liketh me best.

The infernal storm, eternal in its rage, sweeps and drives the spirits with its blast; it whirls them, lashing them with punishment. When they are swept back past their place of judgment then come the shrieks, laments, and anguished cries; there they blaspheme God's almighty power.

Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone.