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

- Giovanni Ruffini

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

- Giovanni Ruffini

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

- 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 loss how to unravel it.

- 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

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

- Giovanni Ruffini

Offended self-love never forgives.

- Giovanni Ruffini

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

- Giovanni Ruffini

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

- Giovanni Ruffini