"Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor."
"Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness."
"There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness."
"Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes."
"Cleverness is not wisdom."
"Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head."
"Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other."
"He is not a lover who does not love forever."
"Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love."
"There is just one life for each of us: our own."
"The greatest pleasure of life is love."
"Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails."
"Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err."
"To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter."