Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

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

Great expectations are better than a poor possession.

In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.

There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman.

'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.