Bring me my bow of burning gold: Bring me my arrows of desire: Bring me my spear: O clouds, unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire.

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.

The worship of God is, Honouring his gifts in other men each according to his genius, and loving the greatest men best; those who envy or calumniate great men hate God, for there is no other God.

Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace.

Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory.

One thought fills immensity.