Quotes from Giovanni Ruffini

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.

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

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

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

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.

Offended self-love never forgives.

Anxiety never yet successfully bridged any chasm.

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

Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait.

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