Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you attack.

Keep thy hook always baited, for a fish lurks even in the most unlikely swim.

Dear to girls' hearts is their own beauty.

Whether they yield or refuse, it delights women to have been asked.

That, which has not its alternation of rest, will not last long.

It is some alleviation to ills we cannot cure to speak of them.

Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses.