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.

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.

You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.

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