The fox is very cunning, but he is more cunning who catches the fox.

If a pretty woman only knew how anger improved her beauty! Her complexion needs no other paint than indignation.

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

No virtue can be real that has not been tried. The gold in the crucible alone is perfect; the loadstone tests the steel, and the diamond is tried by the diamond, while metals gleam the brighter in the furnace.

Grief has been compared to a hydra; for every one that dies, two are born.

Even in dreams doing good is not wasted.

Tis not where we lie but whence we fell; the loss of Heaven's the greatest pain in Hell.