When one has one good day in the year, one is not wholly unfortunate..

Though jealousy be produced by love, as ashes are by fire, yet jealousy extinguishes love as ashes smother the flame..

Some there are who are much more ashamed of confessing a sin than of committing it..

Man is wise ... when he recognizes no greater enemy than himself..

I never knew a mocker who was not mocked, a deceiver who was not deceived, or a proud man who was not humbled..

People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach.

Blessed ... is he who has it in his power to do evil, yet does it not..

Never shall a man attain to the perfect love of God who has not loved to perfection some creature in this world..

I have heard much of these languishing lovers, but I never yet saw one of them die for love..

God always helps madmen, lovers, and drunkards..

Spite will make a woman do more than love..