A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.

With life many things are remedied.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

God exalts the man who humbles himself.

Whom God loves, his house is sweet to him.

There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.