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

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

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

I never knew a mocker who was not mocked, a deceiver who was not deceived, or a proud man who was not humbled.

God always helps madmen, lovers, and drunkards.

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