No one thinks of how much blood it costs.

Nature is the art of God.

It was the hour of morning, when the sun mounts with those stars that shone with it when God's own love first set in motion those fair things

The mouse had fallen in with evil cats.

I found myself within a forest dark.

Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me.

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.