A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.

When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Man appoints, and God disappoints.

The wicked are always ungrateful.

He who reforms, God assists.

Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.