Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself.

Only when one has learned to acknowledge that wiser minds have made better words to come out of our mouths may we truly, then, begin to speak them.

What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible.

Doubt follows white-winged hope with trembling steps.

Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a woman sublime.

Our energies are often stimulated by the necessity of supporting a being weaker than ourselves.

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.