Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage

We must be young to do great things.

A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.

By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.

Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.

It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world.

Children, love one another, and if that is not possible-at least try to put up with one another.