TRANSLATORS NOTE
This edition of Blessed Henry Suso's
Little Book of Eternal Wisdom is translated from the classical German text of
Cardinal Melchior Diepenbrock, Prince-Bishop of Breslau.
That it is a very imperfect reproduction of the
incomparable original, I am fully aware, but there are authors whose beauties
of idiom are such as to be untranslatable, and Suso is one of them.
It is superfluous to enlarge here on the
intrinsic merits of Blessed Henry Suso's work. For over five hundred years it
has enjoyed undiminished popularity, as at once a religious and literary
masterpiece. Such a work speaks too eloquently for itself; it is its own best
praise, its own best commentary.