Where the road bends abruptly, take short steps.

The wise duck keeps his mouth shut when he smells frogs.

Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.

A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment.

There are those who collect the refuse of the public streets, but in order to be received into the band it is necessary to have been born one of the Hereditary Confederacy of Superfluity Removers and Abandoned Oddment Gatherers.

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

How is it possible to suspend topaz in one cup of the balance and weigh it against amethyst in the other; or who in a single language can compare the tranquillizing grace of a maiden with the invigorating pleasure of witnessing a well-contested rat-fight?