“Each of us bears his own Hell.”

“But,...we should first learn the winds and the nature of the sky, the customary cultivation and the ways of the place. What each region bears and rejects. Here corn shoots up, and there grapes do. Elsewhere young trees grow strong and the wild grasses.”

“The descent into Hell is easy”

“Fléctere si néqueo súperos Acheronta movebo - If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.”

“It is easy to go down into Hell...; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air---there's the rub...”

“The signs of the old flame, I know them well.I pray that the earth gape deep enough to take me downor the almighty Father blast me with one bolt to the shades,the pale, glimmering shades in hell, the pit of night,before I dishonor you, my conscience, break your laws.”

“Love conquers all; therefore, let us submit to love.”