Man appoints, and God disappoints.

By God and upon my conscience, said the devil, I never observed it, for my mind is occupied with so many different things that I was forgetting the main thing I came about. This demon must be an honest fellow and a good Christian, said Sancho; for if he wasn't he wouldn't swear by God and his conscience; I feel sure now there must be good souls even in hell itself.

The proof is in the pudding.

Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.

No man is more than another unless he does more than another.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.