Just the same The trouble with her life, if it was trouble, And no musician would regard it trouble, The trouble was her nature strove to be All fire, and subtilize to the essence of fire, Which was her nature's law, and Nature's law, The only normal law, as I have found; For so Canudo says, as I read lately, Who gave me words for what I knew from life.
"Domesday Book"
Edgar Lee Masters
I do not judge the disciple; he was of his time in not knowing how to say simply what he thought, in always desiring to subtilize it, to extract it from passages in the Bible turned from their natural meaning by efforts at once laborious and puerile; what the alchemists did in their continual making of strange mixtures from which they fancied that they should bring out gold, the preachers did to the texts, in order to bring out the truth.
"Life of St. Francis of Assisi"
Paul Sabatier
Unue ili legis en la "Daily News": "But we are inclined to think that Esperanto, having no literature and no vital connection with daily living to enrich and refine and subtilize it, would be a poor language, in which it would be well nigh impossible to communicate any ideas but the simplest and most commonplace."
"The Esperantist, Complete"
Various