The Holy Scriptures praise the dew of the morning and the dew of the evening; ros matutinum, ros serotinum! Happy is he who possesses the gift of tears! when young, he will bear flowers; when old, fruit!

Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal.

What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.

Like those statues which must be made larger than "nature" in order that, viewed from below, or from a distance, they may appear to be of the "natural" size, certain truths must be "strained" in order that the public may form a just idea of them.

Generosity is more charitable than wealth.

That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good.

Not all of those to whom we do good love us, neither do all those to whom we do evil hate us.