“Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.”

“Love works in a circle, for the beloved moves the lover by stamping a likeness, and the lover then goes out to hold the beloved inreality. Who first was the beginning now becomes the end of motion.”

“Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.”

“All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.”

“For loving draws us more to things than knowing does, since good is found by going to the thing, whereas the true is found when the thing comes to us.”

“Boldness be my friend.”

“To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength,Gives, in your weakness, strength unto your foe,And so your follies fight against yourself.Fear, and be slain--so worse can come to fight;And fight and die is death destroying death,Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.”

“Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack! At least we'll die with harness on our back.”