A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.
It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.
The purer the golden vessel, the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of woman is sooner lost than that of man.