e quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle" ("and thence we came forth to see again the stars")

Infinite goodness has such wide arms.

Fate's arrow, when expected, travels slow.

In that part of the book of my memory before the which is little that can be read, there is a rubric, saying, Incipit Vita Nova. Under such rubric I find written many things; and among them the words which I purpose to copy into this little book; if not all of them, at the least their substance.

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

Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength.

The secret of getting things done is to act!