God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.

Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work and dedication.

Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty.

Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?

When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and pity, and wonder.

In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.