The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.

Where one door shuts another opens.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there are so many ends and threads that the beauty and exactness of the work is obscured.

By the streets of 'by and by,' one arrives at the house of 'never'.

It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.

Evil comes not amiss if it comes alone.