Giovanni Ruffini
The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.Collection: Education
Beauty is an exquisite flower, and its perfume is virtue.Collection: Beauty
A human heart is a skein of such imperceptibly and subtly interwoven threads that even the owner of it is often himself at a loss how to unravel it.Collection: Heart
Curses are like processions. They return to the place from which they came.Collection: Return
If country life be healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind.Collection: Country
Fancy borrows much from memory, and so looks back to the past.Collection: Memories
Stories first heard standing at a mother's knee, are never wholly forgotten, — a little spring that never quite dries up in our journey through scorching years.Collection: Mom
Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait.Collection: Evil
Husband and wife,--so much in common, how different in type! Such a contrast, and yet such harmony, strength and weakness blended together!Collection: Husband
The perception of the beautiful is gradual, and not a lightning revelation; it requires not only time, but some study.Collection: Beautiful
Offended self-love never forgives.Collection: Self
Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.Collection: Important
Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.Collection: Class
Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism.Collection: Islands
More people laugh at us than with us, however it may appear at the moment.Collection: Laughter
All papas and mammas have exactly that sort of sight which distinguishes objects at a distance clearly, while they need spectacles to see those under their very noses.Collection: Distance