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

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

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.

The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.

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

Break not the rose; its fragrance and beauty are surely sufficient, resting contented with these, never a thorn shall you feel.

It would never occur to most of us that 'plants' say anything at all, except in terms of what we read into them, or try to use them for. Yet in their responses to this wonderfully rhythmic and varying earth they are the most expressive of all forms of life.