“Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures. ”

“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs”

“I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office”

“Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are”

“Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves”

“Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures”