Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.

envy and hatred fascinate the eyes and never make them see things as they are.

The cup of joy is heaviest when empty.

Excitement is the drunkenness of the spirits. Only calm waters reflect heaven in their bosom.

The more hidden the venom, the more dangerous it is.

There is no greater fool than the man who thinks himself wise; no one is wiser than he who suspects he is a fool.

No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.