Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.

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

A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk's bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth, no such strength of stomach or heat of digestion, as can be sufficient to convert or alter such heavy and fleshy fare.

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

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

It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered.