Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.

For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not be required to act contrary to the law of God.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.

Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.

Believe there are no limits but the sky.

The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.

One swallow alone does not make a summer.