Let our lives be pure as snowfields, where our steps leave a mark but no stain.

We are rich only through what we give.

To reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a blow. The demigod Achilles admitted no one to his confidence.

A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months.

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.

Youth should be a savings bank.