But our comedies never endured long without a tragedy.
Had we been as free from all sins as we were from gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints.
Everything of worth is found full of difficulties.
He who does not work, will not eat
There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other.
The best way to manipulate a man is to make him think he is manipulating you.