Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have sowed. There, methinks, it were a proper place for men to sow their wild oats, where they would not spring up.

No blessing lasts forever.

The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.

Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.

Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.

It is easier to begin well than to finish well.

Fire is next akin to smoke.