Children blessings seem, but torments are.
Dame Fortune, like most others of the female sex, is generally most indulgent to the nimble-mettled blockheads.
The worst thing an old man can be is a lover.
Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.
Love reigns a very tyrant in my heart.
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.