The more highminded a man is the more easily is his anger appeased.

What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands.

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

When disposition wins us, the features please.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.