“Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love”

“Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory”

“Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.”

“The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings. ”

“Music, the greatest good that mortals know, and all of heaven we have below”

“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts”