But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower

Riches and power, what is there more in the world? For money answereth all things-that is, all but soul concerns. It can neither be a price for souls while here, nor can that, with all the forces of strength, recover one out of hell fire.

I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up

To pray rightly, you must make God your hope, stay, and all. Right prayer sees nothing substantial or worth being concerned about except God.

The name of the Slough was Despond.

I live because I am a Warrior and because I wish one day to be in the company of [She] for whom I have fought so hard

The heart, when broken, is like sweet gums and spices when beaten; for as such cast their fragrant scent into the nostrils of men, so the heart, when broken, casts its sweet smell into the nostrils of God.