Darkness may hide the trees and the flowers from the eyes but it cannot hide love from the soul.
There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes.
Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other.
A woman is a mystery to guide a wise and open man.
...one cannot lodge in if.
You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don't know the value of your own soul, it's all foolishness.