The hour of happiness which comes unexpectedly is the happiest.
Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance.
Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course; Through watchful guards its passage make, And loves through solid walls to break.
Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with sparing hand, as much as is enough.
What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.
Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.