It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.

As bees extract honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so sensible men often get advantage and profit from the most awkward circumstances.

A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress.

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

It is no flattery to give a friend a due character; for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension.

Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.

An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.