For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public sentence has warranted. Then certainly he who kills himself is a homicide, and so much the guiltier of his own death as he was more innocent of that offence for which he doomed himself to die.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone

Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?

Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.