The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.

All happiness depends on courage and work.

Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.

Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion.

Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights.

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day.