What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself.

Thus we build on the ice, thus we write on the waves of the sea; the waves roaring pass away, the ice melts, and away goes our palace, like our thoughts.

The friend who holds up before me the mirror, conceals not my smallest faults, warns me kindly, reproves me affectionately, when I have not performed my duty, he is my friend, however little he may appear so. But if a man praises and lauds me, never reproves me, overlooks my faults, and forgives them before I have repented, he is my enemy, however much he may appear my friend.

It is easier to make a lady of a peasant-girl than a peasant-girl of a lady.

What destiny sends, bear! Whoever perseveres will be crowned.