If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires.

I serve for the love of God and in Him have all my hope.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

Lord, make me see thy glory in every place.

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?