No man is so poor as to have nothing worth giving.

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.

The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.