Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.

Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one, How could His work enchant our sight?

The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors.

The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.

Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.

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

Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.