Those marriages are ominous which transmit miseries.


The family tie differs from the tie of friendship in that it binds together interests rather than sympathies.


Love, says Michael Angelo in one of his Sonnets, is the mental impression of ideal beauty:—

Amore e un concetta di bellezza

Immaginata, cui sta dentro al cuore.


The aims of the child centre around his maturity; those of the man around his posterity.