There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks; And when she winds them round a young man's neck, She will not ever set him free again.

One criticizes the English for carrying their teapots wherever they go, even lugging them up Mount Etna. But doesn't every nationhave its teapot, in which, even when traveling, it brews the dried bundles of herbs brought from home?

Where confidence is wanting, the most beautiful flower in the garland of love is missing.