In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.

Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.

In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy.

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.

You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well. Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart. Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.

No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.

All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.