“If you follow your natural bent; you will definitely go to heaven”

“Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground”

“A mighty flame follows a tiny spark.”

“Consider your origin. You were not formed to live like brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge.”

“Hope not ever to see Heaven. I have come to lead you to theother shore; into eternal darkness; into fire and into ice.”

“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.”

“Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people”