Blessed ... is he who has it in his power to do evil, yet does it not.

When one has one good day in the year, one is not wholly unfortunate.

Though jealousy be produced by love, as ashes are by fire, yet jealousy extinguishes love as ashes smother the flame.

Never shall a man attain to the perfect love of God who has not loved to perfection some creature in this world.

Spite will make a woman do more than love.

Some there are who are much more ashamed of confessing a sin than of committing it.

People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach