“Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.”

“Rien n'est vrai comme ce qu'on sent.”

“Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.”

“God instructs the heart, not by ideas but by pains and contradictions.”

“God teaches the soul by pains and obstacles, not by ideas.”

“The books the Holy Spirit is writing are living, and every soul a volume in which the divine author makes a true revelation of his word, explaining it to every heart, unfolding it in every moment.”

“Old age doth in sharp pains abound;We are belabored by the gout,Our blindness is a dark profound,Our deafness each one laughs about.Then reason's light with falling rayDoth but a trembling flicker cast.Honor to age, ye children pay!Alas! my fifty years are past!”