"Into that hidden passage my guide and I entered, to find again the world of light, we climbed up, he first and I behind him, far enough to see, through a round opening, a few of those fair things the heavens bear."
"If, reader, I had more ample space to write, I should sing at least in part the sweetness of the drink that never would have sated me, but, since all the sheets readied for this second canticle are full, the curb of art lets me proceed no farther. From those most holy waters I came away remade, as a"
"Here my exalted vision lost its power. But now my will and my desire, like wheels revolving with an even motion, were turning with the Love that moves the sun and all the other stars."
"the political economists in education, like their fellow utilitarians in other fields, were engaged in what was, in effect, a campaign of containment. The end of their labours was to give the working-class child an education which stressed as its dominant principle not the potentialities of life but"
"...with a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication table always in his pocket, sir, ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to. it is a mere question of figures, a case of simple arithmetic."
"how could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious death? where are the graces of my soul? where are the sentiments of my heart? what have you done o father what have you done. with the garden that should have bloomed once, in this gre"