Our comforts come from God; our sorrows, from ourselves.

If silence is good for the wise, how much better is it for the foolish!

Few can tell what they know without also showing what they do not know.

The small charity that comes from the heart is better than the great charity that comes from the head.

The greatest pleasures of love are inseparable from its greatest pains: Love has the face of a goddess, but the talons of a lion.

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.