Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

We pardon as long as we love.

Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.

Love has its name borrowed by a great number of dealings and affairs that are attributed to it--in which it has no greater part than the Doge in what is done at Venice.

It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be able give good advice to oneself.