Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain... When you are joyous look deep into your heart and you will find that it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.

You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

I would not exchange the sorrows of my heart for the joys of the multitude. And I would not have the tears that sadness makes to flow from my every part turn into laughter. I would that my life remain a tear and a smile.

A look which reveals inward stress adds more beauty to the face, no matter how much tragedy and pain it bespeaks; but the face which, in silence, does not announce hidden mysteries is not beautiful, regardless of the symmetry of its features.

Is not the beautiful moon, that inspires poets, the same moon which angers the silence of the sea with a terrible roar?