They adored each other; but still the permanent and the immutable subsist. We may love and laugh, pout, clasp hands, smile, and exchange endearments, but that does not affect eternity. Two lovers hide in the dusk of evening, amid flowers and the twittering of birds, and enchant each other with their hearts shinning in their eyes; but the stars in their course still circle through infinite space.

If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.

Everything bows to success, even grammar.

And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.

For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.

The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.

Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.