Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult matter.

At my door the Pale Horse stands to carry me to unknown lands.

The use of proverbs is characteristic of an unlettered people. They are invaluable treasures to dunces with good memories.

True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.

Make all good men your well-wishers, and then, in the years' steady sifting, Some of them turn into friends. Friends are the sunshine of life.

There are three species of creatures who when they seem coming are going, when they seem going they come: diplomats, women, and crabs.

What is first love worth, except to prepare for a second? What does second love bring? Only regret for the first.