Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.

Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality.

Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.

Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought, must submit to fulfill the course of destiny.

Let him that sows the serpent's teeth not hope to reap a joyous harvest. Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, its own avenging angel,--dark misgivings at the inmost heart.

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.