As the sea is beautiful not only in calm but also in storm, so is happiness found not only in peace but also in strife.
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.
Of the future, man knows least; yet, about this, he worries most.
We are not men, but promises of men.
The greatest pleasures of love are inseparable from its greatest pains: Love has the face of a goddess, but the talons of a lion.
The small charity that comes from the heart is better than the great charity that comes from the head.