From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world's well beaten ways..

Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe..

You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me..

Love is the crowning grace of humanity..

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other..

The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling..

A good death does honour to a whole life..

Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.

I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world..

How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!.

I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears..

Whyle I was abowte to chaunge myn olde lyff-- What sorowe I suffred, dyseese, angre and stryff, Cracchynge myn here, my chekys all totare, Wrythynge ….

I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too ofte….

What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.

For style beyond the genius never dares..

Reality is always the foe of famous names..

Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown..

I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of ….

For virtue only finds eternal Fame..

Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!.

How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!.