That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.

For let us women be never so ill-favored, I imagine that we are always delighted to hear ourselves called handsome.

All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.

There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.

Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.

Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.

To think that the affairs of this life always remain in the same state is a vain presumption; indeed they all seem to be perpetually changing and moving in a circular course. Spring is followed by summer, summer by autumn, and autumn by winter, which is again followed by spring, and so time continues its everlasting round. But the life of man is ever racing to its end, swifter than time itself, without hope of renewal, unless in the next that is limitless and infinite.