We ought to love our Maker for His own sake, without either hope of good or fear of pain.
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.
He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
Everything disturbs an absent lover.
Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.