Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

Other men's pains are easily borne.

Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory.

He had a face like a blessing.

Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.

Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.

Blessed be those happy ages that were strangers to the dreadful fury of these devilish instruments of artillery, whose inventor I am satisfied is now in Hell, receiving the reward of his cursed invention, which is the cause that very often a cowardly base hand takes away the life of the bravest gentleman.