A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.

Do you believe then that the sciences would ever have arisen and become great if there had not before hand been magicians, alchemists, astrologers and wizards, who thirsted and hungered after abscondite and forbidden powers?

They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire!

You are treading the path to your greatness: no one shall follow you here! Your passage has effaced the path behind you, and above that path stands written: Impossibility.

I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods.

Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.