Never receive hypocrisy as a companion, nor allow your tongue to disguise your thoughts. Let your words always be the echoing chords to the beating of your heart.
If after having received favors, you avoid gratefulness, you are positively more with Judas than with Christ. Nothing will relieve you of the stain, but to repent and prove grateful to your friend.
Greater than all miseries together are the miseries of the heart.
Grows beautiful the rose, but soon after dies; the strong oak is uprooted by the still stronger wind; a little flame reduces to ashes the grandest temple. Every thing is brittle, as every one is mortal.
Said a Spanish boatman: «I can forgive anything for love, and so, I suppose, can the ALMIGHTY.»
