Bonaventure — on Wis 8:2 (Collations on the Hexaemeron, Collation 6)

“And since the author expresses himself as a philosopher and as a lover of Wisdom, he writes: "Her I loved and sought after from my youth; I sought to take her for my bride and was enamored of her beauty" — not only in itself, but also because, coming from her, similar properties are flowering in me.”