In this world, you only get what you grab for.

My mind is wholly possessed by Love, who rules every part there of, in virtue of his all-embracing deity.

Although love dwells in gorgeous palaces, and sumptuous apartments, more willingly than in miserable and desolate cottages, it cannot be denied but that he sometimes causes his power to be felt in the gloomy recesses of forests, among the most bleak and rugged mountains, and in the dreary caves of a desert.

In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.

Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.

People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.

While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.