Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

If we love one another, nothing, in truth, can harm us, whatever mischances may happen.

Life is the gift of God, and is divine.

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands.

Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king.

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