The virtuous woman must be treated like a relic - adored, but not handled; she should be guarded and prized, like a fine flower-garden, the beauty and fragrance of which the owner allows others to enjoy only at a distance, and through iron walls.

That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.

there are many hours and minutes between now and tomorrowand in any one of them-even in a minute,the house falls