What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.

He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.

As our inclinations, so our opinions.

Once I blazed across the sky, Leaving trails of flame; I fell to earth, and here I lie - Who'll help me up again? -A Shooting Star

How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.

I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round Saturn.

We see only what we know.