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.

To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.

Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it.

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

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.