Beauty is an exquisite flower, and its perfume is virtue.
If country life be healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind.
The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.
Curses are like processions. They return to the place from which they came.
A human heart is a skein of such imperceptibly and subtly interwoven threads that even the owner of it is often himself at a loss how to unravel it.
All papas and mammas have exactly that sort of sight which distinguishes objects at a distance clearly, while they need spectacles to see those under their very noses.