Pleasure never comes sincere to man; but lent by heaven upon hard usury.
Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.