Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.

A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine.

The lucky person passes for a genius.

When cheated, wife or husband feels the same.

Happy is it to place a daughter; yet it pains a father's heart when he delivers to another's house a child, the object of his tender care.

Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves.