Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

I am always learning.

Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things.

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

Lord free me of myself, so I can please you!

Do you know that women who are chaste remain much fresher than those who are not?

And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than that of the sheep with which he is clothed.