16 Quotes by Giovanni Ruffini

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.

The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.

Beauty is an exquisite flower, and its perfume is virtue.

Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.

If country life be healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind.

Curses are like processions. They return to the place from which they came.

Husband and wife, – so much in common, how different in type! Such a contrast, and yet such harmony, strength and weakness blended together!

The perception of the beautiful is gradual, and not a lightning revelation; it requires not only time, but some study.

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.