He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
It’s in the very trickery that it pleases me. But show me how the trick is done, and I have lost my interest therein.