One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man.

Giving words [is] an act of lovers.

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.

You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.

When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.

All things have their ends and cycles. And when they have reached their highest point, they are in their lowest ruin, for they cannot last for long in such a state. Such is the end for those who cannot moderate their fortune and prosperity with reason and temperance.

Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they're less than women.