Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses.

To dismiss a guest is a more ungracious act than not to admit him at all.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own.

There is a deity within us who breathes that divine fire by which we are animated.

Love is born of idleness and, once born, by idleness is fostered.

Very slight violence will break that which has once been cracked.