God always helps madmen, lovers, and drunkards.

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

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

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

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

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.