Jests that give pains are no jests.

Fair and softly goes far.

Man appoints, and God disappoints.

Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself.

There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body, That of the soul is revealed through intelligence, modesty, right conduct, Generosity and good breeding, all of which qualities may exist in an ugly man; And when one's gaze is fixed upon beauty of this sort and not upon that of the body, Love is usually born suddenly and violently.