If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive looks and solemn faces.

A few drops sprinkled on the torch of love make the flame blaze the brighter.

...crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.

I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice

Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.