Consequently, if the republic is the weal of the people, and there is no people if it be not associated by a common acknowledgment of right, and if there is no right where there is no justice, then most certainly it follows that there is no republic where there is no justice.

I entered (into my inward self) and beheld with the eye of my soul...the Light Unchangeable.

Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desirest to attain to what thou art not.

Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.

One can't reach the Truth but through Love.

I acknowledge Thee, Lord of heaven and earth, and praise Thee for my first rudiments of being, and my infancy, whereof I remember nothing; for Thou hast appointed that man should from others guess much as to himself; and believe much on the strength of weak females.

You don't love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers.