If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.

Death is the vast perhaps.

Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.

I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.

It is quite a common and vulgar thing among humans to understand, foresee, know and predict the troubles of others. But oh what a rare thing it is to predict, know, foresee and understand one's own troubles.