Everyone Is As God Has Made Him,

Truth May Be Stretched, But Cannot Be Broken, And Always Gets Above Falsehood, As Does Oil Above Water.

Lovers Are Commonly Industrious To Make Themselves Uneasy.

It Is One Thing To Write As Poet And Another To Write As A Historian: The Poet Can Recount Or Sing About Things Not As They Were, But As They Should Have Been, And The Historian Must Write About Them Not As They Should Have Been, But As They Were, Without Adding Or Subtracting Anything From The Truth.

Love Not What You Are But Only What You May Become.

Evil Comes Not Amiss If It Comes Alone.