Youth must pass away, and if I were you I would carry off the queen of Portugal rather than study anatomy." Such was the advice of Desgenais.

I made my way home with swollen heart, my face concealed under my cloak.

I kneeled at the side of my bed and my poor heart dissolved in tears.

What vows! what prayers! Galileo struck the earth, crying: "Nevertheless it moves!" Thus I struck my heart..