“Reason, you'll always be half-blind.”

“Theologians and other clerks, You won't understand this book, -- However bright your wits -- If you do not meet it humbly, And in this way, Love and Faith Make you surmount Reason, for They are the protectors of Reason's house. ”

“Don't blindly follow any leader.”

“It is not that I despise men. If I did I should have no right, and no reason, to try to govern.”

“A prolonged silence ensues. The reason for the silence is our growing interest one for the other. No one is aware of it, no one yet; no one? am I quite sure?”

“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”

“What she said was always strange. It had happened long ago. It seemed insignificant. And yet it was something you remembered forever. The words as well as the story. The voice as much as the words.”