The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.
True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.
Experience unveils too late the snares laid for youth; it is the white frost which discovers the spider's web when the flies are no longer there to be caught.
An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.
Of all trifles, titles are the lightest.
When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack; dead, we remember only those they possessed.