Giovanni Ruffini

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Giovanni Ruffini

All papas and mammas have exactly that sort of sight which distinguishes objects at a distance clearly, while they need spectacles to…

— Giovanni Ruffini

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

— Giovanni Ruffini

More people laugh at us than with us, however it may appear at the moment.

— Giovanni Ruffini

Stories first heard at mothers knee are never wholly forgotten.

— Giovanni Ruffini

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

— Giovanni Ruffini