“I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant.”

“You know not the value of the heart you have insulted... You, sir, I thank you, have lowered my fortunes: but, I bless God, that my mind is not sunk with my fortunes. It is, on the contrary, raised above fortune, and above you[.]”

“I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. ”

“Thank God I am not God! Thank God I am not God!”

“Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.”

“Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted: and I would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard heart; for, truly, I love none. A dear happiness to women: they would else have been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God and my cold blood, I am of your humour for that: I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me.”