That infinite and indescribable good which is there above races as swiftly to love as a ray of light to a bright body.It gives of itself according to the ardor it finds, so that as charity spreads farther the eternal good increases upon it,and the more souls there are who love, up there, the more there are to love well, and the more love they reflect to each other, as in a mirror.

Justice divine has weighed: the doom is clear. All hope renounce, ye lost, who enter here.

I saw a point that shone with light so keen, the eye that sees it cannot bear its blazing; the star that is for us the smallest one would seem a moon if placed beside this point.

Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.

There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair

Follow your path, and let the people talk.

In that part of the book of my memory before which little can be read, there is a heading, which says: ‘Incipit vita nova: Here begins the new life’.