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

“I make no other answer than the act, the Master said: "The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact." [XXIV]”

“And following its path, we took no careTo rest, but climbed: he first, then I-- so far,Through a round aperture I saw appearSome of the beautiful things that Heaven bears,Where we came forth, and once more saw the stars.”

“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.”

“To get back up to the shining world from thereMy guide and I went into that hidden tunnel,And Following its path, we took no careTo rest, but climbed: he first, then I-so far,through a round aperture I saw appearSome of the beautiful things that Heaven bears,Where we came forth, and once more saw the stars.”

“The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened into activity. Your apprehensive faculty draws an impression from a real object, and unfolds it within you, so that it makes the mind turn thereto. And if, being turned, it inclines towards it, that inclination is love; that is nature, which through pleasure is bound anew within you.”

“One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innoucuous need not be feared.”