A man's renown is like the hue of grass, Which comes and goes.

Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock.

In that book which is my memory, On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first day when I met you, Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality.

In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself astray in a dark wood where the straight road had been lost sight of.

What is it to thee what they whisper there? Come after me and let the people talk.

I might then squeeze the juices of my thought more fully out of me.

When he saw me weeping, he answered: ‘You must go another road, if you wish to escape this savage place. This creature, that distresses you, allows no man to cross her path, but obstructs him, to destroy him, and she has so vicious and perverse a nature, that she never sates her greedy appetite, and after food is hungrier than before.

Hence we may overthrow the error of those who think to form the moral character of others by speaking well and doing ill; forgetting that the hands of Jacob were more persuasive with his father than his words, though his hands deceived and his voice spake truth.

He tells his reader that writings should be expounded in four senses. The first.