Faith creates the virtues in which it believes.
There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.
True friendship is never serene.
It is not always sorrow that opens the fountains of the eyes.
If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.
. . . long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at the end of a journey, we should never stir from the place we were then in . . .