He who gives early gives twice.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

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

But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.

She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.

God bears with the wicked, but not forever.

One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones vomit it forth.