"It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live."

"The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them, sometimes three."

"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit."

"How odd and inexplicable are the paths of destiny. What intention did Providence have by ruining the one who it has raised up, and raising up the one who it has ruined?"

"Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found."