“Great fire can follow a small spark: there may be better voices after me to pray to Cyrrha's god for aid - that he may answer.”

“It may be that what we call modern is nothing, but what is not worthy of remaining to become old.”

“I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas,how many yearning thoughts, what great desire,have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?”

“Thus you may understand that love aloneis the true seed of every merit in you,and of all acts for which you must atone.”

“Other response, he said, I make thee not,Except the doing; for the modest askingOught to be followed by the deed in silence.”

“Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice. ”

“O you, who in some pretty boat,Eager to listen, have been followingBehind my ship, that singing sails alongTurn back to look again upon your own shores;Tempt not the deep, lest unawares,In losing me, you yourselves might be lost.The sea I sail has never yet been passed;Minerva breathes, and pilots me Apollo,And Muses nine point out to me the Bears.You other few who have neck upliftedBetimes to the bread of angels upon Which one lives and does not grow sated,Well may you launch your vesselUpon the deep sea.”