"The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened into activity."

"O souls, who are so sick and heavy-laden, look to the light that never sets!"

"Here I came to understand that such a state as this the torments of the lost were meant to be."

"O blind greed, and foolish mortals' minds, that spur you on in life with such desire!"

"The love of God, unutterable and perfect, flows into a pure soul the way light rushes into a transparent object."