“Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.”

“No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.”

“Read the heart and not the letter for the pen cannot draw near the good intent.”

“So now, from this mad passionWhich made me take art for an idol and a kingI have learnt the burden of error that it boreAnd what misfortune springs from man's desire... The world's frivolities have robbed me of the timeThat I was given for reflecting upon God.”

“If I am more alive because love burns and chars me,as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation,it's that he who lays me low is my salvation,and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.”

“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”

“With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.”