Character is inured habit.
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
Foreign lady once remarked to the wife of a Spartan commander that the women of Sparta were the only women in the world who could rule men. "We are the only women who raise men," the Spartan lady replied.
Painting is silent poetry.
Real excellence, indeed, is most recognized when most openly looked into.
A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress.