Ifs Quotes by Giovanni Ruffini

A human heart is a skein of such imperceptibly and subtly interwoven threads that even the owner of it is often himself at a…

— Giovanni Ruffini

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

— Giovanni Ruffini

Offended self-love never forgives.

— Giovanni Ruffini

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

— Giovanni Ruffini

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

— Giovanni Ruffini

Fancy borrows much from memory, and so looks back to the past.

— Giovanni Ruffini

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

— Giovanni Ruffini

Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.

— Giovanni Ruffini

“A teacher is like a candle that lights others by consuming itself.”

— 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.…

— Giovanni Ruffini

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

— 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…

— Giovanni Ruffini