Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.

Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!

Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, peerless creature of her hive, is surrounded by lowly drones to please her, whereas the workers produce honey, the same way is the one who sits on the throne an equal only to himself, and no one's companion.

There is one privilege we'll never lose; currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.

Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.